It’s a classic Halloween tale. A group of ghost hunters visit a grand old house that is rumoured to be haunted. But after thoroughly exploring, they l...
Nov 01
Study: Women and ethnic minorities in data science probably won’t get promoted over white men
Despite a significant growth in the number of women working in the tech industry, female representation has stalled over the last decade. Only 18 perc...
Humans are within years of sending the first crewed mission to Mars. And then what? Maybe another 100 years from now we’ll eventually have the resourc...
The tiny Polish village of Miejsce Odrzanskie has become the unlikely source of international media attention over the past fortnight as a result of w...
Many of us know that feeling of waking up, headache in tow, struggling to remember what we said and did after that extra drink the night before. And t...
The high immersive capacity of virtual reality is often acknowledged as its main virtue when compared to other media and communication technologies. I...
While much of the world now recognizes the need for immediate action, there are still those who question the scientific consensus on climate change an...
Former financier and alleged sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is an apparent transhumanist who hoped to seed the world with his DNA and have his head an...
Geologists have dubbed Earth’s middle age the “boring billion”. Occurring some 1,800 to 800 million years ago, it has long been considered a period wh...
Humans are fascinated by visual illusions, which occur when there is a mismatch between the pattern of light that falls on the retina, and what we per...