Category: Science
Night Owls May Be More Susceptible to Diabetes Than Early Birds
Not everyone is a morning person. Some of us work better in the late hours than at the crack of dawn. But most jobs in…
Chum Salmon Are Spawning in the Arctic. It’s an Ominous Sign
By laying eggs in the rivers, the chum salmon might actually help native fishes by providing food for them. These frigid Arctic waters aren’t particularly…
Chum Salmon Are Spawning the Arctic. It’s an Ominous Sign
By laying eggs in the rivers, the chum salmon might actually help native fishes by providing food for them. These frigid Arctic waters aren’t particularly…
DeepMind Wants to Use AI to Solve the Climate Crisis
It’s a perennial question at WIRED: Tech got us into this mess, can it get us out? That’s particularly true when it comes to climate…
Fungal Infections in The Brain May Cause Alzheimer’s-Like Symptoms
A common type of fungi has now been shown to penetrate the mammal brain and trigger toxic amyloid plaques like those associated with Alzheimer’s disease….
Global Emissions Predicted to Hit New High in 2023, Scientists Warn
Global emissions of planet-heating carbon dioxide are expected to rise around one percent to reach a new all-time high in 2023, the climate scientist behind…
Strangely Engraved Rock Is Giant ‘Treasure Map’, Archaeologists Say
A piece of rock with mysterious markings that lay largely unstudied for 4,000 years is now being hailed as a “treasure map” for archaeologists, who…
‘Unusual’ Mystery of Dead Whales Washing Up on US Coast May Be Solved
Gray whales have been washing up dead on the Pacific coast at an alarming rate since 2019, and scientists think they might finally know why….
What Is Viagra?
Viagra, the ‘little blue pill’ that is used by millions of men worldwide for erectile dysfunction, was actually discovered by accident. In the early 1990s,…
Scientists Predicted How The Sun Will Die, And It Will Be Epic
How will our Sun look after it dies? Scientists have made predictions about what the final days of our Solar System will look like, and…