Deepfake audio has a tell – researchers use fluid dynamics to spot artificial imposter...
Imagine the following scenario. A phone rings. An office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new...
Super-Earths are bigger, more common and more habitable than Earth itself – and astronomers...
Astronomers now routinely discover planets orbiting stars outside of the solar system – they’re called exoplanets. But in summer 2022, teams working on NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite found a...
Short-hop regional flights could be running on batteries in a few years
Electric planes might seem futuristic, but they aren’t that far off, at least for short hops.
Two-seater Velis Electros are already quietly buzzing around Europe, electric sea planes are being tested...
High-risk, high-reward health research is the mandate of new, billion-dollar US agency
A new multibillion-dollar federal agency was created with a goal of supporting “the next generation of moonshots for health” in science, logistics, diversity and equality. And the agency now has...
Humans evolved with their microbiomes – like genes, your gut microbes pass from one...
When the first humans moved out of Africa, they carried their gut microbes with them. Turns out, these microbes also evolved along with them.
The human gut microbiome is made up...
Viruses may be ‘watching’ you – some microbes lie in wait until their hosts...
After more than two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, you might picture a virus as a nasty spiked ball – a mindless killer that gets into a cell and hijacks...
Lack of accurate, transparent data about internet access speeds
Imagine purchasing “up to” a gallon of milk for US$4.50, or paying for “up to” a full tank of gas. Most people would view such transactions as absurd. And yet,...
Cold shutdown reduces risk of disaster at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant – but combat around...
Energoatom, operator of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar, announced on Sept. 11, 2022, that it was shutting down the last operating reactor of the...
NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid to test a plan that could...
On Sept. 26, 2022, NASA plans to change an asteroid’s orbit.
The large binary asteroid Didymos and its moonlet Dimorphos currently pose no threat to Earth. But by crashing a...
Psychedelics researchers balance trippyness with scientific rigor after history of legal and cultural controversy...
As research into psychedelics and their medical uses makes a comeback, scientists are having to deal with the legacy – both scientific and social – of a 40-year nearly total...