Category Science & Discovery

Have you ever Googled yourself? You might be surprised at how much information can be turned up about you from a simple search—though it depends on how public your online presence is and how common your name happens to be.…

Credit: RDNE Stock project from Pexels Volunteering is a popular way for people to give something back to society. Whether it’s joining a tree-planting group, or helping out at a charity shop, spending time contributing to a cause is something…

We’ve seen the headlines: on 14 February, the US Department of Education ruled that race-based scholarships and diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes violate civil-rights law. Universities that don’t dismantle these programmes risk losing federal funding. This is not an…

“I don’t hate it. I just don’t like it at all, and it’s terrible.” – Michael Scott … and maybe you too when it comes to presentations at work, probably. If you no longer want to dread presenting all your…

Floodwaters reach the levee walls protecting the city of Lismore on Australia’s eastern coast. Gusts and torrential rain have blacked out more than a quarter of a million properties and swamped parts of Australia’s east coast, officials said Sunday, with…

Rarely observed events called kilonovas, produced by the collision of ultra-dense stars, are thought to produce some of the Universe’s heaviest elements.Credit: NASA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) The gargantuan collision of two neutron stars detected with gravitational waves in 2017 sparked…

A collection of 2,400-year-old ceramic puppets found atop a Salvadorian pyramid are forcing archaeologists to rethink the country’s historical connection with its Central American neighbors. Three of the figures were made of fine clay and had adjustable heads with holes…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists have identified strains of one of the world’s most dangerous fungal pathogens, already resistant to our most effective antifungal drugs, which are also five times more likely to acquire resistance to desperately needed new treatments…

Bone tools excavated in Tanzania are the earliest known to be used by ancient humans.Credit: CSIC Ancient humans consistently used bone tools at least one million years earlier than was previously thought. ‘Truly gobsmacked’: Ancient-human genome count surpasses 10,000 The…

Make more room on your desk when you swap from that clunky old scanner for the iScanner app. Turn any document into a high-quality scanned image with just your phone or tablet camera. Lifetime access comes with your own iOS…