Researchers lift the lid on how reasoning models actually “think”
As all scribblers of doggerel know, rhymes must be paired up before you start a new line. Otherwise you may write yourself in...
How Daylight Saving Time affects your sleep and diet
As clocks spring forward in the northern hemisphere, many people will be looking forward to longer, sunnier evenings—a few gr...
Motors in the wheels take EVs further
AT the Paris World Exhibition in 1900 Ferdinand Porsche, the eponymous founder of the German sports-car company, unveiled an ...
What does space miso taste like?
Fermented foods are enjoyed around the world for their potent, often salty, spicy and umami flavours. This makes them particu...
Mitochondria transplants could cure diseases and lengthen lives
Organ transplants are a familiar idea. Organelle transplants, less so. Yet organelles are to cells what organs are to bodies—...
Can Musk put people on Mars?
HUMAN LAWS can be changed, waived or broken. Physical laws are less biddable. When it comes to putting humans on Mars, which ...
Climate change may make it harder to spot submarines
THE PENTAGON “does not do climate-change crap”, said Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s defence secretary, on March 9th. “We do tra...
Can Musk put man on Mars?
HUMAN LAWS can be changed, waived or broken. Physical laws are less biddable. When it comes to putting humans on Mars, which ...
How harmful are electronic cigarettes?
RESTRICTIONS on vaping are multiplying. Belgium banned sales of disposable vapes on January 1st. France adopted a similar law...
Why don’t seals drown?
FREE-DIVING IS a perilous sport. Divers, swimming underwater without oxygen tanks, frequently black out from low oxygen and p...