The curious contraption at University College London bordered between scientific wizardry and a terrifying Black Mirror episode. It might have just proved a decades-long theory of how the brain’s GPS system works. Let me paint you a picture: imagine a m

Humans have now had a continuous presence in space for 20 years thanks to the International Space Station (ISS), but the facility is unlikely to survive into the next decade. What comes next could shape the future of space exploration. Unsurprisingly, t

There Could Be 300 Million (or More) Earth-Like Planets in Our Galaxy . The first planets discovered outside our solar system were strange, unfamiliar worlds. These were giants like Jupiter, hotter than Venus, tearing around their suns inside the orbit of

Flippy the Fast Food Robot Just Went Commercial, and It's Selling Like Crazy . No doubt about it, the pandemic has changed the way we eat. Never before have so many people who hated cooking been forced to learn how to prepare a basic meal for themselves.

This Baby Horse Was Cloned Using DNA That Was Frozen for 40 Years . When Dolly the sheep was born in 1996, she instantly achieved worldwide fame for being the first-ever animal to be cloned from an adult cell. Since then, she hasn’t had many competitors f

3.2 Billion Images and 720,000 Hours of Video Are Shared Online Daily. Can You Sort Real from Fake? . Twitter over the weekend “tagged” as manipulated a video showing US Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden supposedly forgetting which state he’s in

Media Multitasking Is Ruining Our Memory. Can We Fix It? . I picked up a bad habit during lockdown: binge Netflix at double speed, while scrolling through the Twitter cesspool on my phone. I think I feel mentally stimulated, and trick myself into believin

Virtual Power Plants Could Help Solve Our Energy Needs. But What Are They? . Building a greener, more resilient grid will be essential in the coming decades if we want to slow the pace of climate change and cope with the disasters it can cause. One promis

New Display Packs 10,000 PPI, and Could Paint Stunning VR Worlds . You can plausibly say, today’s virtual reality is a descendent of smartphones. The affordable sensors, chips, and high-resolution displays critical to rendering a decent VR experience were

Japanese Towns Use This Robotic Wolf to Scare Off Bears, and It’s Terrifying . Halloween weekend is upon us, and as millions don costumes and visit haunted houses (as if real life wasn’t scary enough right now), several towns in Japan won’t be seeing any