If the universe is a game, then who’s playing it?Bruce Rolff/Shutterstock The following is an extract from our Lost in Space-Time newsletter. Each month, we hand over the keyboard to a physicist or mathematician to tell you about fascinating ideas...
A player’s view of the video game Gran Turismo 7Sony Interactive Entertainment An artificial intelligence can beat the best human players at the racing video game Gran Turismo 7 using only the images and information that players can see. In...
A hoard of Roman gold coins found below the floor of a Roman house in Corbridge, UKWorld History Archive/Alamy After the Romans conquered Britain in AD 43, the technologies and laws they introduced led to centuries of economic growth of...
A car kitted out with technology for gathering data on the condition of buildingsMadeleine Cuff UK city-dwellers may have spotted a strangely shaped car cruising around their neighbourhood earlier this year. It looks just like a Google Street View vehicle,...
Artist’s depiction of the Ariane 6 rocketESA-D. Ducros What is Ariane 6? Ariane 6 is the latest model in the Ariane line of rockets – Europe’s own satellite launchers. The project dates back to a proposal from 1973 and the...
Tests on lab-grown “mini-brains” show a one-off gene therapy treatment can prevent the formation of the tau tangles associated with several neurodegenerative conditions Source link...
Nobody doubts that Albert Einstein had a brilliant mind. But the Nobel prizewinner, famous for his theories of special and general relativity, wasn’t blessed with a big brain. “It was smaller than average,” says Jeremy DeSilva at Dartmouth College in...
Ultra-processed food is often high in fat, sugar and saltGMVozd/Getty Images Nutrition advice is often fickle. In the 1990s, nutritionists blamed fats for rising obesity rates. Then, carbohydrates became the culprit in the early 2000s. Now, the refrain is to...
Dingoes are found across most of the Australian continentDominic Jeanmaire/Getty Images/iStockphoto Analysis of ancient DNA from dingoes suggests that Australia’s native wild dogs arrived in two waves of migration between 3000 and 8000 years ago and show little evidence of...
The New York Stock Exchange on Wall StreetHans-Werner Rodrian / Alamy Cosmic ray particles capable of penetrating even the densest buildings or underground structures can provide an essentially foolproof timing system for synchronising high-frequency trades in the world’s international stock...
