Science and Technolgy blog
Exposure to light is crucial for our physical and mental health, as this and future articles in the series will show. But the timing of that light exposure is also crucial. This tells our body to wake up in the…
On Friday, Anthropic announced that Amazon has increased its investment in the AI startup by $4 billion, bringing its total stake to $8 billion while maintaining its minority investor position. Anthropic makes Claude, an AI assistant rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT.…
Physicists including Robert H. Dickle and Fred Hoyle have argued that we are living in a universe that is perfectly fine-tuned for life. Following the anthropic principle, they claimed that the only reason fundamental physical constants have the values we…
On the eve of the rise of the Maya civilization, people living in what’s now Belize turned a whole wetland into a giant network of fish traps big enough to feed thousands of people. We already know that the Maya…
Earthen channels directed fish into ponds that formed seasonally, providing a dietary bounty for Maya civilizations starting around 4,000 years ago.
Brain scans of modern listeners suggest that Aztec whistles sound like human screams, which may have prepared sacrifice victims for their journey to the underworld.
A shockwave caused by the galaxy NGC 7318b slamming into four other galaxies is akin to a “sonic boom from a jet fighter.” Astronomers hope the event will reveal vital secrets about the often-violent evolution of our universe.
A five-year leak on a Russian module of the International Space Station has gotten worse over time. Now, NASA and Russia’s Roscosmos space agency disagree just how bad it is.
Wolves in Ethiopia that lick the flowers of the “red hot poker” flowers are the first known large carnivores to eat nectar.
A recent study published in JAMA Health Forum highlights significant disparities in social risk factors experienced by sexual and gender minority adults compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts in the United States. The research, led by a team from…
