How a 400 million year old fossil changes our understanding of mathematical patterns in nature
The spiky branches of a monkey puzzle tree. Joshua Bruce Allen/ShutterstockIf your eyes have ever been drawn to the arrangement...
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How to make better decisions – using scoring systems
Yayhastudio / ShutterstockWhen faced with difficult choices, we often rank the alternatives to see how they stack up. This approach...
Succession is as much about technology as it is about money, power and family
Warning: the following article contains spoilers. Technology is key to Succession’s tale of the Roy family media dynasty, with the...
EU files antitrust charges against Google – here’s how the ad tech at the heart of the case works
European Commission Vice President Margrethe Vestager discusses the EU's antitrust case against Google. AP Photo/Virginia MayoThe European Union filed an...
EU approves draft law to regulate AI – here’s how it will work
The EU's act will generally prohibit the use of real-time facial recognition in public spaces. DedMityay / ShutterstockThe word “risk”...
Glass: Neither a solid nor a liquid, this common yet complicated material is still surprising scientists
Most glass is made by melting down soda ash, limestone and quartz sand. gezgin01/iSock via Getty ImagesGlass is a material...
UFOs: what we’ll learn from the Nasa panel investigating sightings
Raggedstone / ShutterstockA committee set up by Nasa has examined about 800 reports of unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs), or what...
What is a ‘toroidal propeller’ and could it change the future of drones? An expert explains
Glen Cooper/MITThe basic configuration of traditional propellers has not fundamentally changed since the first powered flight by the Wright brothers...
Are you part robot? A linguistic anthropologist explains how humans are like ChatGPT – both recycle language
Are we as different as we'd like to believe? Ledi Nuge/iStock via Getty ImagesChatGPT is a hot topic at my...
Has a mathematician solved the ‘invariant subspace problem’? And what does that even mean?
Michael Dziedzic / UnsplashTwo weeks ago, a modest-looking paper was uploaded to the arXiv preprint server with the unassuming title...
