June 21, 2019

Scientists create ‘universal’ computer memory that could change the way we store data

The data from all those Instagram pictures you’re posting needs to be stored somewhere, and the increasing amount of digital

A major Indian city has nearly run out of water, and no one is talking about it

This time last year the roughly half-a-million people who live in Cape Town were in a panic. Their city was

Declassified Spy Photos Reveal The True Scale Of Melting of the Himalayan Glaciers

Just under half a century ago a system of satellites codenamed Hexagon was circling the globe and snapping high-resolution shots

Scientists taught seals to sing the Star Wars theme, with hilarious results

The harsh bark of the seal certainly doesn’t spring to mind when you’re thinking of melodious singing voices in the

For the first time, scientists record the songs of one of the world’s rarest whales

There aren’t many North Pacific right whales left, with vague estimates in the low hundreds. Those last few populations aren’t

This ancient city 9,000 years ago eerily foreshadowed the modern ‘urban hell’

Living in the city isn’t always easy. You have to contend with multitudes of other people and the problems they

Scientists used 17,000 “lost” wallets to study how honest people really are

In 2015, a Swiss graduate student departed from the Zurich airport with a suitcase filled with empty wallets, loads of

A tiny Norwegian Island wants to be the first place in the world to abolish time

When people come to visit the Nordic island of Sommarøy, they must leave their sense of time at the door.  Some

Soap bubbles look like magic little snow globes when they freeze, and now we know why

There’s something about a bubble of soapy water that causes it to freeze in a peculiar yet beautiful way. The