Most plant-friendly fungi are a mystery to scientists
If you walk through a forest and look down, you might think you’re stepping on…
Blocking exports and raising tariffs is a bad defense against industrial cyber espionage, study shows
The United States is trying to decouple its economy from rivals like China. Efforts toward…
How your data pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars for app and social media companies
You wake up in the morning and, first thing, you open your weather app. You…
Around 250 million years ago, Earth was near-lifeless and locked in a hothouse state. Now scientists know why
Some 252 million years ago, almost all life on Earth disappeared. Known as the Permian–Triassic…
Rare wooden tools from Stone Age China reveal plant-based lifestyle of ancient lakeside humans
Ancient wooden tools found at a site in Gantangqing in southwestern China are approximately 300,000…
Why the US bombed a bunch of metal tubes − a nuclear engineer explains the importance of centrifuges to Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons
When U.S. forces attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities on June 21, 2025, the main target was…
Chatbots are on the rise, but customers still trust human agents more
Customers contact companies regularly to purchase products and services, inquire about orders, make payments and…
MethaneSat failed just as NZ was to take over mission control – here’s what we need to know now
This week’s announcement of the loss of a methane-detecting satellite, just days before New Zealand…
Humans and animals can both think logically − but testing what kind of logic they’re using is tricky
Can a monkey, a pigeon or a fish reason like a person? It’s a question…
South African kids learn a whole lot more about human evolution from museum workshops
South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their…