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…
Perceived consensus drives moral intolerance in a time of identity-driven politics and online bubbles
To live together in social communities, people create and maintain expectations about what is normal…
Getting AIs working toward human goals − study shows how to measure misalignment
Ideally, artificial intelligence agents aim to help humans, but what does that mean when humans…
AI-powered robots help tackle Europe’s growing e-waste problem
Just outside the historic German town of Goslar, a sprawling industrial complex receives an endless…