Science and Technolgy blog
Google has become so integral to online navigation that its name became a verb, meaning “to find things on the Internet.” Soon, Google might just tell you what’s on the Internet instead of showing you. The company has announced an…
Archaeologists have found a hoard of 2,600-year-old jewelry at Karnak Temple in Egypt.
A study conducted in Israel suggests that when people are ready to engage in phubbing, they experience a slight reduction in empathy. When empathy declines, individuals become somewhat less willing to act prosocially. The paper was published in Psychological Reports.…
AMD is a company that knows a thing or two about capitalizing on a competitor’s weaknesses. The company got through its early-2010s nadir partially because its Ryzen CPUs struck just as Intel’s current manufacturing woes began to set in, first…
Brother laser printers are popular recommendations for people seeking a printer with none of the nonsense. By nonsense, we mean printers suddenly bricking features, like scanning or printing, if users install third-party cartridges. Some printer firms outright block third-party toner…
New CDC data on falling rates of precancerous cervical lesions in the U.S. underscore the benefits of HPV vaccination.
On Tuesday, Donald Trump finally made it clear to Congress that he wants to kill the CHIPS and Science Act—a $280 billion bipartisan law Joe Biden signed in 2022 to bring more semiconductor manufacturing into the US and put the…
Google is no stranger to antitrust scrutiny, but the walls may be closing in. As the next phase of Google’s search trial nears, the company’s lawyers have reportedly met with representatives from the US Department of Justice in hopes of…
A special look at the second season of Andor. Disney+ dropped the first action-packed teaser for the second season of Andor just last week. The streaming platform followed up today with a special three-minute featurette on the making of the…
A cluster of deaths linked to a mysterious illness in the Democratic Republic of the Congo could be the result of a poisoning or bacterial meningitis, the WHO has suggested.
A new study published in the Journal of Attention Disorders reveals that women in relationships with men diagnosed with ADHD experience higher levels of depression and a lower quality of life. However, engaging in health-promoting activities, such as exercise and…
A surprise find in my inbox this morning: news from Volkswagen about a pair of new electric vehicles it has in the works. Even better, they’re both small and affordable, bucking the supersized, overpriced trend of the past few years.…
A federal judge rejected Elon Musk’s request to block OpenAI’s planned conversion from a nonprofit to for-profit entity but expedited the case so that Musk’s core claims can be addressed in a trial before the end of this year. Musk…
Chemists identify a single molecule that naturally tiles in nonrepeating patterns, which could help build materials with novel electronic properties.
Analysts are warning that the Trump administration’s recently implemented tariffs on Canada, Mexico, and China could lead to price increases and supply issues for video game software and hardware in the United States. The effects could be particularly pronounced for…
A new study published in the American Journal of Political Science has found that partisan television news consumption is more common than many might expect, with about 15% of Americans spending a significant amount of time each month watching channels…
The excavation of bone tools at Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania expands the range of ancient hominids’ cultural innovations.
The discovery of 1.5 million-year-old bone tools upends what we know about tool manufacturing in East Africa.
Jeff Bezos has moved to introduce a tough Amazon-like approach to his rocket maker Blue Origin, as the world’s third-richest person seeks to revive a company that has lagged behind Elon Musk’s SpaceX. The space company’s founder and sole shareholder…
Since the Lunar Trailblazer spacecraft launched in late February as a rideshare spacecraft along with a Falcon 9 launch, NASA has been providing a series of increasingly worrisome updates about the health of the small orbiter. Trailblazer appears to be…
Colossal scientists just created “woolly mice” in another step towards their ultimate goal of resurrecting woolly mammoths. But should we be tinkering with extinct species? Take our poll and have your say.
Feeling more connected and enjoying conversations more is a common reason people drink alcohol in social settings. Now, research published in the journal Psychopharmacology provides scientific backing for this experience. The study found that alcohol enhances the enjoyment of social…
As expected, Apple has officially refreshed its MacBook Air lineup with its M4 chip, the same silicon we’ve already seen in products like the MacBook Pro, the iMac, and the Mac mini. And in most ways, it’s a straightforward update,…
Apple announced its first Mac Studio updates in nearly two years today, a few months after bringing the M4 and M4 Pro chips to the Mac mini. As before, Apple offers a lower-end and a higher-end configuration of the Mac…
Apple’s first Mac Studio refresh in nearly two years is a welcome update, injecting fresh life into two computers that were still getting by with M2 chips. But the company took a bit of a strange approach to the update,…
The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.
The two innermost planets, Venus and Mercury, will shine together low in the western sky at sunset on March 10. Here’s how to get the best view before they disappear.
AI has helped physicists discover a simpler way of achieving quantum entanglement. This finding could make it easier to develop quantum communication technologies.
The world’s largest iceberg has run aground just off the coast of South Georgia. But what does this mean for the wildlife there?
The mantis shrimp’s club uses a built-in vibration shield that filters out damaging shock waves to enable it to strike with bullet-like force without breaking.
Incels significantly overestimate how much society blames them for their problems and underestimate the level of sympathy from others, according to new research published in Personality & Individual Differences. Involuntary celibates, or “incels,” represent an online subculture of men who…
One thing Shadowveil: Legend of the Five Rings does well is invoke terror. Not just the terror of an overwhelming mass of dark energy encroaching on your fortress, which is what the story suggests. Moreso, the terror of hoping your little…
Researchers have discovered remains of a very ancient glacier — one that could be more than a million years old. It lay hidden on a remote island in the Canadian Arctic. Climate change revealed the ice, which may be the…
We’re sharing our best tips on how to photograph the moon and with the total lunar eclipse on March 13-14 — discover the right gear, settings and composition techniques to make the most of the event.
A more than 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden isn’t a Viking vessel after all, scientists have found.
A case report highlights one potential danger of competitive speed eating.
Feelings of loneliness can negatively impact a marriage, but a recent study suggests that certain positive traits can help protect the relationship from these harmful effects. Researchers discovered that when spouses are grateful and forgiving, the negative impact of loneliness…
In late 2013, the Spike Jonze film Her imagined a future where people would form emotional connections with AI voice assistants. Nearly 12 years later, that fictional premise has veered closer to reality with the release of a new conversational…
These striking puppets suggest that Indigenous people in what is now El Salvador had rituals that were more connected to the rest of Central American culture than previously thought.
US Health Secretary and long-standing anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is facing criticism for his equivocal response to the raging measles outbreak in West Texas, which as of Tuesday has grown to 159 cases, with 22 hospitalizations and one…
On Tuesday, the team behind the plan to bring mammoth-like animals back to the tundra announced the creation of what it is calling wooly mice, which have long fur reminiscent of the woolly mammoth. The long fur was created through…
There’s little that Internet denizens love more than a snazzy personality test—cat videos, maybe, or perpetual outrage. One trend that has gained popularity over the last several years is personality quizzes based on so-called ambiguous images—in which one sees either…
Three critical vulnerabilities in multiple virtual-machine products from VMware can give hackers unusually broad access to some of the most sensitive environments inside multiple customers’ networks, the company and outside researchers warned Tuesday. The class of attack made possible by…
Most readers come away from George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 with the same singular desire: to inhabit the world of the book by playing a late ’90s first-person puzzle-adventure PC game that includes a “zero-g training sphere” for some…
Google’s AI ambitions know no bounds. A new report claims Google’s next phones will herald the arrival of a feature called Pixel Sense that will ingest data from virtually every Google app on your phone, fueling a new personalized experience.…
Apple reportedly filed an appeal in hopes of overturning a secret UK order requiring it to create a backdoor for government security officials to access encrypted data. “The iPhone maker has made its appeal to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an…
A recent study published in JAMA Network Open has found that subtle differences in brain structure during late childhood are linked to whether young people start using substances like alcohol, nicotine, or cannabis in their early teens. Children who initiated…
Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut are due to return home on a Crew Dragon spacecraft in a couple of weeks. For two of the crew members, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, it has been a long, strange trip.…
A CDC report has revealed that nine of 68 of children who died of flu this year had brain damage, but it’s unclear whether this influenza-associated encephalopathy is on the rise.
The silver coins were minted over a period of more than 200 years, suggesting that Roman currency at this time was relatively stable.
