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You might suppose Hollywood is good at predicting the future. Indeed, Robert Wallace, head of the CIA’s Office of Technical Service and the US equivalent of MI6’s fictional Q, has recounted how Russian spies would watch the latest Bond movie to see what technologies might be coming their way. Hollywood’s continuing obsession with killer robots […]

It’s long been popular advice for people looking to lose weight to avoid late night snacking. It’s no wonder, with a host of research showing that late night eating is linked to greater body weight and increased risk of obesity. But until now, few studies have actually investigated precisely why late night eating is linked […]

Innovative businesses are not easy to find. You know what we are talking about — the businesses that actually save you money with their ingenious ideas and make your life easier. But, we’ve found one that promises to do both and give you access to authentic royalty-free images to use however you like.  Scopio Lifetime […]

There are potentially trillions of different microbe species on Earth, and we’ve identified the tiniest fraction of them. That’s partly because finding them requires such cutting-edge technology, but it sometimes also comes down to more practical issues – like just looking in the right place. A new project led by researchers from across the USA, […]

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its guidelines regarding trans and gender-diverse people, providing new directions on how to best serve this marginalized community. The guidelines touch on several diseases that are prevalent in the community but stress how social and structural barriers deprive and obstruct access to healthcare and other essential services. The […]

If you don’t know by now that smoking is bad for you, then we can only assume you’re a time traveler from 1936 sent here to warn us all about the looming Nazi threat in Europe (don’t worry: we won.)  But what we’re still getting to grips with is just how bad for you it […]

Augmented reality technology has come a long way since its development in 1992. With the Metaverse on the horizon, more user-friendly AR design technology has begun to develop. Where the first augmented rig was constructed in a lab, now you may be able to scan, source and create your own 3D and 2D AR images.  […]

Very massive stars spend only a small portion of their lifecycle as red supergiants before becoming supernovas. What may be an astronomical blink of the eye, however, is still hundreds of thousands of years, so the process of closely watching every star in the red supergiant phase is not practical. However, new evidence of a […]

Wildscreen has announced the winners of their 2022 Panda Awards, granting My Garden Of A Thousand Bees the top prize: the Plimsoll Golden Panda Award. Filmed during lockdown, the feature film by wildlife filmmaker Martin Dohrn explored the secret lives of 60 bee species (mirroring this year’s winner of Wildlife Photographer Of The Year nicely). […]

New data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) has shown an increase of COVID-19 cases across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. In the week of October 3, COVID-19 cases stood at 1.7 million, a huge increase of 31 percent on the week previous, the highest figure the UK has seen since late July. Advertisement […]

Blue Babe was a bison with two lifetimes. The first occurred 50,000 years ago when the steppe bison (Bison priscus) roamed Alaska before meeting its end in the jaws of a lion. The second began when its mummified remains were retrieved from the Interior permafrost where it had remained frozen in time since the Ice […]

This article first appeared in Issue 1 of our new free digital magazine CURIOUS. Conspiracy theories can range from the small and innocent (blue tack is just white tack that’s been colored in with pen) to the downright dangerous and absurd (have the people who think Bill Gates is a super-genius capable of a global […]

Bumblebees have had a mixed 2022 so far. Despite their success in being declared fish by the US Supreme Court, it has also been discovered that they are capable of feeling pain. Now the results of a new study found that a common pesticide can even affect their fine-color vision and long-term memory.  Glyphosate-based herbicides are […]

If you want a particularly unforgettable reminder to take your contact lenses out every night – or you just fancy a shiny new sleep paralysis demon – look no further. A video by an optometrist in Newport Beach, California, has gone viral after showing a patient having no fewer than 23 contact lenses removed from […]

Saying that the surface of Venus is inhospitable is an understatement. The pressure is twice what you’d get at the bottom of lake superior, the temperature is high enough to melt lead, and the air is a mixture of acids. But above this hellscape, there are clouds that are a bit more forgiving to robotic […]

The hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica hit its annual peak of 26.4 million square kilometers (10.2 million square miles) on October 5. While this is the third consecutive year that the ozone hole has expanded to this kind of size, the overall trend shows that it is in fact still shrinking. According to […]

Most of us, whether we like it or not, spend about twelve years minimum studying mathematics – learning how to recognize numbers, add them together and subtract one from another, multiply and raise powers, all that kind of stuff. Let’s face it, most of us have forgotten a whole lot of it a few years […]

Astronomers have discovered something puzzling in the atmospheres of two exoplanets: barium. The 56th member of the periodic table is the heaviest element ever discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet, detected in the upper layers of two peculiar worlds, both ultra-hot Jupiters: WASP-76 b and WASP-121 b. And we’re not exaggerating when we say […]