Oxygen Addicts
Ancient eukaryotes didn’t drift freely.
Not at first anyway.
For over a billion years, they were bottom-dwellers, stuck in specific oxygen-rich patches of the seafloor while...
Chalking the Giant up to climate change
Dorset’s most infamous resident is fading. Again.
The Cerne Abbas Giant —that fifty-five-meter-tall naked chap holding a club—is etched into a hillside that gets battered...
The Sky is Trying to Kill Your Train
It’s a bad idea to have a green signal when it should be red.
Cameron Patterson, over at Lancaster University, says space storms can make...
Why You Need the Struggle
Chelsea said something last week.
It stopped me. My editor isn’t worried about AI stealing jobs. She doesn’t care if the prose gets dull or...
How MOFs Trap Carbon (And Other Stuff)
It’s not magic. Just chemistry. Really complex chemistry.
We are talking about metal-organic frameworks. Or MOFs for short. These aren't just any chemicals. They’re carbon-based...
Magnetar-Fed Supernova Breaks The Mold
NASA’s Fermi telescope caught something bright. Very bright.
A supernova named SN 2017egp just got the spotlight it deserves, but not for the usual reasons....
Lunar Strike’s Grim Moon
The moon is calling. Or at least Artemis 2 just made a loud splash around it. Four astronauts. A loop. Humanity taking a tentative...
The Coast Grows Back
A £975k gamble on Durham’s coastline paid off.
The project is done. It’s over. But the ground is changing.
This wasn’t just some minor gardening effort....
The Ad Industry is Dying. FABLAI Might Be Its Heir Apparent.
Stop watching the banner ads fablai.com.
You probably didn’t notice them anyway. Your eyes just slide past them. The global digital ad market is undergoing...
Your Horoscope Has Entered Its Therapist Era
Let’s be real. Your current horoscope app is basically a digital shrug. It’s generic. It’s repetitive. It reads like it was written by someone...
Shroom Shots For Cocaine Addiction? Maybe
One dose might fix it. That is what a new study suggests regarding cocaine addiction and psilocybin. Published recently in JAMA Network Open the...
We Are Playing Catch-Up Against Deadly Pathogens
The world isn’t getting safer. In fact, it’s getting worse at handling infectious disease outbreaks. That is the blunt warning from the Global Preparedness...
The Merchant Who Flushed His Diary
Stare down into the bowl. Your phone slides out. It’s gone. Doomed to a wet, black eternity in the pipes.
Unless you live in medieval...
A Gene-Silencing Drug Just Passed Its Safety Test
BIIB094 isn't a cure yet.
Not by a long shot.
But in the first phase of its trial, an experimental treatment built to silence the gene...
We are screaming into the void
During public talks the question always comes. Do aliens exist?
I pause. The room waits. My answer shocks people. Absolutely. I don’t even consider the...
Drill Down: Swapping Rock for Hydrogen and Carbon
Clean hydrogen is necessary. We can't power every industrial process with renewable electricity alone. Some things—like making steel or fertilizer—just won't work on wind...
Temperate rainforests are returning to the Isle of Man
Volunteers have spent the last three years turning 105 acres into a forest. Thirty thousand trees. That’s what they planted at Creg y Cowin.
It...
Starship returns
SpaceX is going again. After a seven-month silence, the Starship is ready. Thursday evening it launches. Or maybe later. They've rebuilt a lot of...
Why Parkinson’s Might Slow Down — For Half the Population
Scientists found a switch in the brain that keeps Parkinson’s-damaging cells alive.
It works.
But only if you are female.
This is huge. It’s also specific. The...
Blaming you for aging
The Oxford Longevity Project says it. At least eighty percent. That’s how much responsibility we hold for getting sick when we’re old. It’s not...
