When removing a brain tumour, the distinction between healthy tissue and cancer isn鈥檛 visible to the naked eye. Even advanced imaging can miss what hides between those boundaries. For years, this...
Without light there is no life. Literally. It was Dutch scientist Jan Ingenhousz who through a series of experiments in 1779 showed that light is required for photosynthesis, the process that makes...
Biomimicry, a scientific field dedicated to using nature as a model to guide the development of more efficient and better technology, recenters the anthropocentric narrative that often takes the...
By now, the fact that artificial intelligence can hallucinate is, I hope, well known. There are countless examples of platforms like ChatGPT giving the wrong answer to a straightforward question or...
Our bodies are wired to avoid pain鈥攁nd yet, for millions, it鈥檚 a daily, unwelcome companion. One minute you鈥檙e climbing stairs, opening a jar, or just existing, and the next you're googling 鈥渋s...
One day in 2014, I came home from school only to see my uncle fiddling with a small cardboard box on the couch. This wasn鈥檛 any old cardboard box, but one that looked like the world鈥檚 chunkiest...
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It was the 1960鈥檚 and cheese producers were cheesed off. People were just not eating enough veal. Slaughterhouses were running short of calf stomachs and the cheese industry was feeling the pinch....
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