Why some words become funnier when paired together
A study looking at more than 55,000 pairs of words has found why word pairings like “funk fungus” and “gnome bone” seem to be more amusing than their constituent parts…
Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?
For decades, measurements of the universe’s expansion have suggested a discrepancy known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to transform cosmology. But a new method suggests the tension may not…
Have we been measuring the expansion of the universe wrong all along?
For decades, measurements of the universe’s expansion have suggested a discrepancy known as the Hubble tension, which threatens to transform cosmology. But a new method suggests the tension may not…
Covid-19 news: US records over 1 million coronavirus deaths
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal Liverpool, Matt Hambly, Carissa Wong, Alex Wilkins and Alexandra Thompson…
Covid-19 news: US records over 1 million coronavirus deaths
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal Liverpool, Matt Hambly, Carissa Wong, Alex Wilkins and Alexandra Thompson…
Launch of UK ‘moonshot’ ARIA research agency delayed until end of year
The UK government’s plans to launch an agency to fund high-risk, high-reward research have been thrown off course Technology 13 May 2022 By Adam Vaughan The Department for Business, Energy…
Launch of UK ‘moonshot’ ARIA research agency delayed until end of year
The UK government’s plans to launch an agency to fund high-risk, high-reward research have been thrown off course Technology 13 May 2022 By Adam Vaughan The Department for Business, Energy…
Black holes
Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to…
Black holes
Black holes are objects with an intense gravitational pull so strong that not even beams of light, the fastest things in the universe, can escape. This makes them impossible to…
Genetically engineered bacteria have learned to play tic-tac-toe
E. coli bacteria modified to act like electronic components called memristors can be set up to act as a simple neural network and trained to play noughts and crosses Life…