Science and Technolgy blog
Sexual humor appears to positively influence sexual satisfaction in romantic relationships, as reported in The Canadian Journal of Human Sexuality. Christine D. Lomore and colleagues examined the role of sexual humor in romantic relationships, an area often overshadowed by general…
Who is better at maneuvering a large load through a maze, ants or humans? The piano-mover puzzle involves trying to transport an oddly shaped load across a constricted environment with various obstructions. It’s one of several variations on classic computational…
Most scientific literature is published in for-profit journals that rely on subscriptions and paywalls to turn a profit. But that trend has been shifting as various governments and funding agencies are requiring that the science they fund be published in…
Nvidia has good news and bad news for people building or buying gaming PCs. The good news is that three of its four new RTX 50-series GPUs are the same price as or slightly cheaper than the RTX 40-series GPUs…
Lenovo announced a laptop today that experiments with a new way to offer laptop users more screen space than the typical clamshell design. The Lenovo ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable has a screen that can roll up vertically to expand…
New research published in Biological Psychiatry: Cognitive Neuroscience and Neuroimaging sheds light on how psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, affect the brain’s ability to perceive and process visual information. The study found that individuals with psychotic psychopathology struggle with a…
Meta announced today that it’s ending the third-party fact-checking program it introduced in 2016, and will rely instead on a Community Notes approach similar to what’s used on Elon Musk’s X platform. The end of third-party fact-checking and related changes…
Shark sex is a bitey business, with males grasping females with their teeth during the act. The resulting wounds are helping scientists to figure out when and where sharks are doing the deed.
Photos from the James Webb Space Telescope have revealed more than 40 stars within the gravitationally lensed “Dragon Arc” galaxy, 6.5 billion light-years from Earth. It is the largest group of individually imaged stars ever seen at such a distance.
The second season of The Last of Us will hit HBO and Max in April. HBO released a new one-minute teaser for the second season of its post-apocalyptic drama The Last of Us during CES last night, along with a release…
