Category: Technology
Scientists reprogram ant behavior using brain mole...
Leafcutter ants live in highly organized colonies where every ant has a job, and now researchers can flip those jobs like a switch...
The brain’s sweet spot: How criticality could unlo...
Our brains may work best when teetering on the edge of chaos. A new theory suggests that criticality a sweet spot between order an...
Mammals didn't walk upright until late—here's what...
The shift from lizard-like sprawl to upright walking in mammals wasn’t a smooth climb up the evolutionary ladder. Instead, it was ...
Scientists reveal your morning coffee flips an anc...
Caffeine appears to do more than perk you up—it activates AMPK, a key cellular fuel sensor that helps cells cope with stress and e...
This team tried to cross 140 miles of treacherous ...
Experiments and simulations show Paleolithic paddlers could outwit the powerful Kuroshio Current by launching dugout canoes from n...
Farming without famine: Ancient Andean innovation ...
Farming didn t emerge in the Andes due to crisis or scarcity it was a savvy and resilient evolution. Ancient diets remained stable...
New test unmasks illegal elephant ivory disguised ...
Poachers are using a sneaky loophole to bypass the international ivory trade ban—by passing off illegal elephant ivory as legal ma...
Scientists finally know why early human migrations...
New research reveals why early human attempts to leave Africa repeatedly failed—until one group succeeded spectacularly around 50,...
Skull study shows Chicago's rodents are rapidly ev...
Urban wildlife is evolving right under our noses — and scientists have the skulls to prove it. By examining over a century’s worth...
Can these endangered lizards beat the heat? Scient...
South Australia’s tiny pygmy bluetongue skink is baking in a warming, drying homeland, so Flinders University scientists have trie...
Why cats prefer sleeping on their left side—and ho...
Cats overwhelmingly choose to sleep on their left side, a habit researchers say could be tied to survival. This sleep position act...
One shot, game changed: How RAVEN captured a petaw...
Scientists have developed a groundbreaking technique called RAVEN that can capture the full complexity of an ultra-intense laser p...
Self-lighting chip uses quantum tunneling to spot ...
Imagine detecting a single trillionth of a gram of a molecule—like an amino acid—using just electricity and a chip smaller than yo...
This breakthrough turns old tech into pure gold — ...
At Flinders University, scientists have cracked a cleaner and greener way to extract gold—not just from ore, but also from our mou...
Affordances in the brain: The human superpower AI ...
Scientists at the University of Amsterdam discovered that our brains automatically understand how we can move through different en...
Quantum dice: Scientists harness true randomness f...
Scientists at NIST and the University of Colorado Boulder have created CURBy, a cutting-edge quantum randomness beacon that draws ...
From cursed tomb fungus to cancer cure: Aspergillu...
In a remarkable twist of science, researchers have transformed a fungus long associated with death into a potential weapon against...
This triple-layer sunlight catalyst supercharges g...
Researchers in Sweden have developed a powerful new material that dramatically boosts the ability to create hydrogen fuel from wat...
123,000-year-old coral fossils warn of sudden, cat...
Ancient coral fossils from the remote Seychelles islands have unveiled a dramatic warning for our future—sea levels can rise in su...
Your CT scan could reveal a hidden heart risk—and ...
What if your old chest scans—taken years ago for something unrelated—held a secret warning about your heart? A new AI tool called ...
