Science
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Extremely rare Bronze Age wooden tool found in English trench
Archaeologists cleaning excess mud off the Bronze Age spade Wessex Archaeology A wooden spade from the Bronze Age has been…
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How do birth control pills change the brain?
Before now, no one had studied the brain before, during and after taking hormonal birth control Shutterstock / Krakenimages The…
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Morphing red blood cells help bats hibernate – and we could do it too
Animals that hibernate need a way to keep their blood flowing as their body temperature drops, and it seems that…
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Sleep: Fresh insights into how we doze off may help tackle sleep conditions
When he was in need of inspiration, the inventor Thomas Edison used to take a nap in a chair while…
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Meta AI tackles maths problems that stumped humans for over a century
Meta says its AI could help mathematicians Tada Images/Shutterstock An AI system developed by Meta can find solutions to maths…
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NotebookLM: I’ve been boosting my ego with a sycophant AI and it can’t be healthy
Will AI give us a rose-tinted view of ourselves? Huber & Starke/Getty Images Many people are scared that artificial intelligences…
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Amateur sleuth finds largest known prime number with 41 million digits
There is a new largest known prime Panther Media GmbH/Alamy After a six-year drought, we now have a new largest…
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Can sensor technology stop a wildfire before it starts?
The US Department of Homeland Security is trialling chemical sensors that detect the first whiff of smoke in the air…
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How a simple physics experiment could reveal dark matter hiding in an extra dimension
We tend not to dwell on the fact that we exist in three dimensions. Forwards-back, left-right, up-down; these are the…
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We are finally improving prostate cancer diagnoses – here’s how
An ultrasound scan showing a prostate with signs of cancer CAVALLINI JAMES/BSIP SA/Alamy As a man in my mid-50s, I am starting to…
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