As climate change increases the frequency and severity of droughts, water utility companies and government officials are turning to behavioural interventions to get people to reduce their water use, but…
In drought-stricken areas across the globe, everyone must do their part to conserve a dwindling resource. Simple changes can help cut back on water use Environment 10 November 2022 By…
For the first time, octopuses have been spotted throwing things — at each other. Octopuses are known for their solitary nature, but in Jervis Bay, Australia, the gloomy octopus (Octopus…
The effects of climate change are steadily worsening and now threaten nearly every aspect of life in the U.S., according to a stark draft of a federal climate report released…
Hardly anyone reckoned that struggling in high school to calculate the area of a triangle or the volume of a prism could be used one day to influence the outcome…
Even a mile underground, our planet is teeming with microbes. Scientists long assumed that these subterranean microbial communities, which dwell in aquifers and geothermal wells, saw little ecological change. But…
Artificial intelligence has helped design an invisibility cloak. The cloak could hide communication devices from detectors that use microwaves or infrared light Technology 10 November 2022 By Karmela Padavic-Callaghan Invisibility…
Many AIs can only become good at one task, forgetting everything they know if they learn another. A form of artificial sleep could help stop this from happening Technology 10…
Many species of tree-living ants cultivate plants that grow on trees either for food or shelter, but there is a debate over whether the practice should be considered agriculture Life…
Placing a particle of light in a superposition so that it is travelling both forwards and backwards in time could prove useful for quantum computation Physics 10 November 2022 By…