Margaret Atwood’s novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, described the horror of the authoritarian regime of Gilead. In this theocracy, self-preservation was the...
What would convince you that aliens existed? The question came up recently at a conference on astrobiology, held at Stanford University in California....
Do you ever wish you could just turn on the happy chemicals in your brain? Imagine how much easier it would make getting out of bed each morning, gett...
Capturing carbon dioxide from smokestacks, and even removing it directly from air, might be the only way to avert the most catastrophic effects of cli...
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...