York Minster, York, Yorkshire, England, UKNeale Clark/robertharding/Alamy I recently moved back to my hometown, York, a small city in the north of England. It is historically rich and culturally vibrant, but lacking in one department: trees. According to the council,...
There is a tendency among how-to enthusiasts to talk about creativity as if it had fixed objectives: things you know from the start will turn out to be novels, symphonies or paintings. Writers and musicians who have suffered the uncertainties...
A chandelier evokes the rig of microphones used to capture the recordingsLeon Chew, The Call, Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst with sub, Serpentine, 2024 The CallHolly Herndon and Mat DryhurstSerpentine North, London Closes 2 February 2025 Step into London’s Serpentine...
Greenhouse gas emissions are still on the riseWeiquan Lin/Getty Images As the world emerged from the lockdowns of the covid-19 pandemic, many countries promised to rebuild their economies in a climate-friendly fashion, amid hopes the recovery effort could accelerate the...
October 24, 20244 min readThe Daring Russian Geneticist Whose Experiments on Silver Foxes Explained Domestication Has DiedLyudmila Trut devoted her life to studying the process of domestication by selectively breeding friendly foxesBy Lee Alan Dugatkin & Aaron Dugatkin Lyudmila Trut,...
October 24, 20242 min readAnyone Can Learn Echolocation in Just 10 Weeks—And It Remodels Your BrainHuman echolocation repurposes parts of the brain’s visual cortex for sound, even in sighted peopleBy Simon Makin Human echolocation has at times allowed people to...
Here is a recipe for a thought-provoking, if not wholly appetising, snack: slice up a large tomato and pour over five or six tablespoons of your favourite cooking oil. Depending on where you got your tomato, that oil represents roughly...
The probability that one word will follow another can be used to create a watermark for AI-generated textVikram Arun/Shutterstock Google has been using artificial intelligence watermarking to automatically identify text generated by the company’s Gemini chatbot, making it easier to...
Using DNA for data storage just got much more efficientErkmen Design/Alamy DNA has been used for years to store data, but encoding information into the molecule is painstaking work. Now, researchers have drastically sped it up by mimicking a natural...
Adding blade-like sails to tankers could reduce their annual fuel consumption by up to 30 per cent, slashing the climate impact of the shipping industry Source link...
