JWST’s First Glimpses of Early Galaxies Could Break Cosmology
Rohan Naidu was sitting at home with his girlfriend when he found the galaxy that nearly broke cosmology. As his algorithm dug through early images from the James Webb Space…
Streetlights in Europe are getting bluer – that may be bad for health
Photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station show that streetlights are getting gradually more blue-tinged in many countries in Europe as they switch to energy-efficient LEDs Health 14…
Hunter-gatherers kept animals for food before they farmed crops
Ancient dung hints that 12,000 years ago, a population of hunter-gatherers in what is now Syria kept animals like sheep or gazelles around – probably for food Humans 14 September…
Antimicrobial drug derived from tree sap could treat chronic wounds
A compound derived from the sap of the blushwood tree was found to improve wound healing in mice and dairy calves Health 14 September 2022 By Jason Arunn Murugesu People…
Einstein’s gravity principle still correct, finds most precise test
An experiment conducted on a satellite in orbit found that Albert Einstein’s ideas about gravity are still correct, with measurements accurate to one part in a quadrillion Physics 14 September…
Why do AIs keep creating nightmarish images of strange characters?
By Matthew Sparkes Loab, a character produced consistently by an AI image generator Supercomposite/Twitter Some artificial intelligences can generate realistic images from nothing but a text prompt. These tools have…
Simple puzzles are revealing why humans are the only talking apes
Cognitive scientist Gillian Forrester is challenging chimps and gorillas to solve puzzles in an attempt to address the long-standing mystery of how humans evolved the ability to speak Humans 13…
Exquisite Fossils Show an Entire Rain Forest Ecosystem
Located an hour’s drive from the city of Dunedin on New Zealand’s South Island, Foulden Maar has become one of the world’s most significant but troubled fossil sites. This shallow-sided…
Unvaxxed Kids, and 8 Days a Week (of Isolation) | COVID, Quickly, Episode 38
This is our second back-to-school special episode. Today, we talk about two big issues—the low vaccination rates among the littlest kids, and how long you should quarantine after being sick…
Ethereum Merge: What will the radical update mean for cryptocurrency?
The electricity consumption of the Ethereum cryptocurrency rivals that of some countries, but a controversial update to how it works will slash this by 99 per cent – here’s the…