Google loses online ad monopoly case. But it’s just one of many antitrust battles against big tech
Tech giant Google has just suffered another legal blow in the United States, losing a…
Scientists found a potential sign of life on a distant planet – an astronomer explains why many are still skeptical
A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying…
All models are wrong − a computational modeling expert explains how engineers make them useful
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Most bees nest in the ground. Offering rocks and gravel is a simple way to help them thrive
Of the more than 20,000 bee species in the world, 70% nest in the ground.…
Why do scientists want to spend billions on a 70-year project in an enormous tunnel under the Swiss Alps?
The Large Hadron Collider has been responsible for astounding advances in physics: the discovery of…
How social media can negatively impact our mental well-being
Imagine a tribe of uncontacted hunter-gatherers in the deepest Amazon rainforest. Anthropologists airdrop dozens of…
OpenAI beats DeepSeek on sentence-level reasoning
ChatGPT and other AI chatbots based on large language models are known to occasionally make…
New form of dark matter could solve decades-old Milky Way mystery
Astronomers have long been puzzled by two strange phenomena at the heart of our galaxy.…
Superb fairy-wrens’ songs hold clues to their personalities, new study finds
When we think of bird songs, we often imagine a cheerful soundtrack during our morning…
South Africans don’t donate enough blood – technology can help drive the numbers
The shortage of blood for medical use is a global challenge. South Africa is not…