Dogs really do pull faces to communicate with us, says new study
Dogs are much more facially expressive when they’re around their human friends than when they’re by themselves or with other dogs, and move their faces as a communication tool rather…
If you want to have lucid dreams, here’s a tip from a recent study
Having a degree of control of our dreams while we’re in the middle of them can be one hell of a fun ride, adding a vivid new element to our…
Scientists have made a two-dimensional material that’s never been seen in nature
A team of researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia has reportedly made a ‘once-in-a-decade discovery’ that will radically change how we do chemistry. The discovery? The creation of two-dimensional…
Speaking a foreign language really does get easier after you have a drink
Take a quick tipple and you could find yourself speaking a second tongue more naturally, according to new research. The foreign language skills of participants in the study were found…
An 11-year-old just became ‘America’s Top Young Scientist’ with this clever invention
Gitanjali Rao, an 11-year-old from Lone Tree, Colorado, is the winner of this year’s Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge for her sensor that can detect lead levels in water…
The perfect location for a future Moon base has finally been confirmed
Forget the romance of camping on the Moon – an unimpeded rain of radiation would make even short stays an express trip to Cancer City. One way to protect potential…
Google’s latest self-learning AI is like an “alien civilisation inventing its own mathematics”
An AI that vanquished humanity at perhaps the most complex traditional game on Earth was inconceivably smart. But not smart enough to survive its own replacement by an even more…
Flying insects are disappearing at huge rates, and we should all be worried
Not long ago, a lengthy drive on a hot day wouldn’t be complete without scraping bug guts off a windshield. But splattered insects have gone the way of the Chevy…
An island has been spewing mud for 11 years straight, and we finally see why
The Lusi eruption has been steadily spewing out mud across the Indonesian Island of Java since May 2006 – and scientists think they’ve finally worked out what’s behind it. New…
A faked study linking vaccines and autism is being eviscerated by scientists
Controversy has erupted over a scientific paper that is being retracted after it was attacked for being ‘antivax pseudoscience‘ and found to contain manipulated, false data… which has now gone…