Ultra-Processed Foods Are Trashing The Planet, Scientists Warn
Our world is facing a huge challenge: we need to create enough high-quality, diverse and nutritious food to feed a growing population – and do so within the boundaries of…
The Great Barrier Reef Is Suffering Another Mass Bleaching Event
Australia’s spectacular Great Barrier Reef is suffering “mass bleaching” as corals lose their color under the stress of warmer seas, authorities said Friday, in a blow widely blamed on climate…
Digital Data Could Be Altering Earth’s Mass Just a Tiny Bit, Claims Physicist
In the past 24 hours, people uploaded more than 720,000 hours’ worth of footage onto YouTube. According to calculations made a few years ago by University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin…
An AI Experiment Generated 40,000 Hypothetical Bioweapons in Just 6 Hours
The cutting-edge number-crunching capabilities of artificial intelligence mean that AI systems are able to spot diseases early, manage chemical reactions, and explain some of the mysteries of the Universe. But…
Ingenious AI Method Could Find Precious New Rare-Earth Compounds
Rare-earth elements are crucial components in all kinds of electronics, from smartphones and broadband cables to wind turbines and electric cars. But coming up with useful compounds that can expand…
Physicists Just Discovered a Weird New Tetragonal Phase of Water Ice
A new crystalline form of water ice has been discovered in fleeting transitions between phases at high pressures. It’s called Ice-VIIt, and it takes place as the substance slides between…
Physicists Think They’ve Finally Cracked Stephen Hawking’s Famous Black Hole Paradox
At the heart of every black hole sits a problem. As they sizzle away into nothingness over the eons, they take with them a small piece of the Universe. Which,…
Smart Devices Are Spying on You Everywhere, And That’s a Problem
Have you ever felt a creeping sensation that someone’s watching you? Then you turn around and you don’t see anything out of the ordinary. Depending on where you were, though,…
Here’s What You Need to Know About Power Cuts at Two Ukrainian Nuclear Plants
The catastrophic disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in 1986 was caused by an explosion at the Reactor 4 Unit. This expelled a sizeable quantity of radioactive material into…
Chernobyl Nuclear Plant Reported to Have Lost Electricity. Here’s What That Means
Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant and all the facilities in the Chernobyl exclusion zone have been completely disconnected and are now without electricity, Ukraine’s state energy company has announced. Russian forces…
Radical Plan to Make Earth’s Deepest Hole Could Unleash Limitless Energy
Since its launch in 2020, a pioneering energy company called Quaise has attracted some serious attention for its audacious goal of diving further into Earth’s crust than anybody has dug…
Scientists Unveil Extremely Small Battery For The Smallest Computers in The World
There was a time, not so long ago, when computers were so large, they occupied entire rooms. Today, some processing units can come as small as a few specks of…