Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...

The Doctor Who spin-off focuses on the fictional military organisation (UNIT stands for Unified Intelligence Taskforce) run by Kate Lethbridge-Stewart (Jemma Redgrave) that regularly appears on the ...

LLMs like Chat GPT come with major social costs — including child labor — that we can't ignore. Do we really need progress that's built on the suffering of others? When you purchase through links on ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Phones are an integral part of our lives, and ensuring they have a stable internet connection is crucial. Everyone has a carrier they use. Sometimes that connection may not be as reliable as we hope.

The universe exists because matter and antimatter are not good friends. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Is there a scientific ...

New research reveals that carbon made it possible for Earth’s molten core to freeze into a solid heart, stabilizing the magnetic field that protects our planet. Without it, Earth’s deep interior — and ...

With close to a decade of writing and editing experience, Maisha specializes in service journalism and has produced work in the lifestyle, financial services, real estate, and culture spaces. She uses ...

It should come as no surprise that if we have a sequence of objects, we often wish to see if an element is in the sequence (list, tuple, or string). Sometimes we also want to find the index of the ...

When studying rare earth elements, noticing a violet glow in the lab used to be a sign for scientists that something intriguing lay on the other side of an impenetrable wall. That glow belonged to ...

Heterochromatin, sometimes known as the “dark side of the genome,” is a poorly studied fraction of DNA that makes up about half of our genetic material. For more than 50 years scientists have puzzled ...

Taxpayers can still receive a stimulus check up to $1,400 depending on how they filed their 2021 tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service announced in December that it would be distributing about ...