Images and videos of airbrushed bodies come thick and fast on social mediamartin-dm/Getty Images On many social media sites, messaging about food and diet is everywhere. Watch the “for you” feed on TikTok for more than a few minutes –...
December 16, 20244 min readWhy It’s a Bad Idea to Shoot at New Jersey ‘Mystery Drones’Surging reports of strange drones in the skies over New Jersey and other parts of the northeast U.S. have spurred calls to shoot down the...
The bartender says: “We don’t serve time travellers in here.” A time traveller walks into a bar. OK, yes, I will almost certainly regret starting this article with such a hoary old joke. At some point, most of us have...
A crosshatch pattern of wires created by self-assembling liquid metal particlesJulia Chang / North Carolina State University Self-assembling electronics made from liquid metal particles could provide a cheaper way of manufacturing computer chips, simply by harnessing the basic physics of...
Plastic food packaging can expose people to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA)Shutterstock/Trong Nguyen Hundreds of thousands of deaths and millions of cases of heart disease worldwide may be linked to chemicals in common plastic products, suggesting that more stringent...
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Imagine a photograph of your great-grandparents, grandparents and parents side by side. You’d see a resemblance, but each generation would look distinct from its...
Eerie events often have mundane explanationsLuciano De Polo Stokkete/Alamy I had a strange experience in a cafe recently. When paying for coffee, I asked to use the toilet. After I tapped my PIN into the card reader, the barista handed...
A fluffy longhorn beetleJames Tweed On a camping trip in Queensland, Australia, insect researcher James Tweed snapped a shot of what may be the world’s fluffiest beetle (Excastra albopilosa). Its hairs are especially thick around the top half of its...
Saturn and its rings, as imaged by the Cassini spacecraft in 2016NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute The rings of Saturn could be much older than previously thought and may have formed around the same time as the planet, according to a modelling...
