Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the boreal belt — is still running on a partnership older than trees themselves
Mycorrhizal fungi colonised plant roots roughly 450 million years ago and biologists now suspect plants could never have moved out of the oceans onto bare rock without them, meaning every forest on Earth — including the redwoods, the Amazon, and the…
A four-month-old Chinese startup just launched a $118 AI collar that claims to translate dog and cat vocalizations into human sentences with 95% accuracy — an extraordinary consumer device that has secured $1 million in funding despite zero independent scientific proof that it actually works
A four-month-old Chinese startup just launched a $118 AI collar that claims to translate dog and cat vocalizations into human sentences with 95% accuracy — an extraordinary consumer device that has secured $1 million in funding despite zero independent…
Adults who find it physically painful to ask for help, even when they are completely overwhelmed, usually aren’t proud — they are people who realized at an early age that relying on others resulted in disappointment, so they built a hyper-independence to ensure they would never be at the mercy of someone else’s reliability again
Adults who find it physically painful to ask for help, even when they are completely overwhelmed, usually aren’t proud — they are people who realized at an early age that relying on others resulted in disappointment, so they built a…
NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s.
NASA still maintains some of the Voyager spacecraft code in a 1970s-era programming language that almost nobody on Earth fully understands anymore, and the handful of engineers who do are now in their 80s. The favored indication of the tale sounds almost…
When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under glass beads still falling from the sky.
When seismic waves from the Chicxulub impact reached what is now North Dakota roughly ten minutes after the asteroid struck, they appear to have triggered a ten-metre standing wave in an inland river that flung fish onto the bank and buried them under…
Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness
Psychology suggests people who browse social media but never post or comment aren’t passive — they’ve simply opted out of the performance while retaining access to the information, which is a sign of quiet self-awareness On any considerable social…
Research says people who never post on social media aren’t antisocial, secretive, or behind the times — they have noticed that performing their life cost them the ability to live in it
Research says people who never post on social media aren’t antisocial, secretive, or behind the times — they have noticed that performing their life cost them the ability to live in it There is a form of account that glimpses dormant but is not.…
People who flip their phone face down on every table aren’t being secretive. They figured out that staying interruptible meant handing their time to whoever rang first
People who flip their phone face down on every table aren’t being secretive. They figured out that staying interruptible meant handing their time to whoever rang first There is a little motion some humans render without presuming around it. They…
Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse
Scott Kelly spent a year in orbit while his identical twin brother stayed on Earth, and when he came home NASA discovered his gene expression had changed in ways that didn’t fully reverse In March 2015, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly unleashed to the…
People who browse social media but almost never post aren’t passive — they may have quietly opted out of the exhausting performance layer of modern life
People who browse social media but almost never post aren’t passive — they may have quietly opted out of the exhausting performance layer of modern life There is a particular kind of social media account that visual attractions deserted yet isn’t. The…