Category: Science & Technology

Ask any random person for an example of a fractal, and there are a few answers you can expect. The first, obviously, is “Who are

An unidentified disease has reportedly affected over 400 people in the rural Kwango Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since October 2024.

After thousands of years, we may finally know how to play an ancient board game, or at least a decent approximation of it. In 1977,

A new-to-science predator has been identified from the hadal depths of the Atacama Trench, a first for this island-like ecosystem in the Southeast Pacific. Here,

A new paper has set out ways that we can test the anthropic principle, or whether the universe has been “finely tuned” for life. Surprisingly,

China’s got a problem. The southern regions of the country are relatively humid and well-watered, yet much of the north suffers from parchingly arid conditions.

The universe is undergoing an accelerated expansion. The so-called Hubble constant indicates the rate of that expansion, and there are a few ways for astronomers

If you’ve watched enough cartoons, you have probably noticed something odd about the characters within them. An awful lot of them have only three fingers

The Amazon River snakes around for at least 6,400 kilometers (3,977 miles), yet it is not crossed by a single bridge (at least officially). Given

We all know that the ocean holds many mysterious creatures, from incredible whales to sponges that can live for 11,000 years. One such species deserves

Having lived alongside humans since the Ice Age, dogs have unsurprisingly picked up a few of our tricks, with a knack for communication being among

In case you have missed it, Google announced some pretty impressive achievements in the field of quantum computing on Monday. Tucked away in the announcement

Traditional chemistry is so last year. Welcome to the world of mechanochemistry, where reactions that were thought impossible – indeed, that are impossible when attempted in

Earth’s rocky crust can sometimes seem like a drab, dull, and lifeless place (sorry, geologists, we know it’s more interesting than that… sometimes). However, with

A curious phenomenon has been reported among people who have undergone heart transplants. For some, they believe that they may have received more than just

The land bridge across the Bering Strait that lasted through much of the last Ice Age was likely very different from what has been imagined.

When you bake a loaf of bread or a batch of muffins, you put the dough into a pan. As the dough bakes in the