Researchers have created “Smart Underwear,” a wearable device that measures flatulence by detecting hydrogen produced by gut microbes. Early tests suggest people may pass gas about 32 times a day—much ...

Do all Indian languages share a Sanskrit origin? The Bharatiya Bhasha Parivar theory says yes. This critique examines its ...

In the first week of February 2026, the geography of human intelligence officially detached from the Earth. With a landmark filing to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on February 4, ...

The next issue of our banknotes will swap Britain’s greatest minds, heroes and leaders, with wildlife. Gone are Shakespeare, Churchill, Austen, Turner, Turing, Wellington; in their place, the Bank of ...

Some people retire and leave. Others retire and become the place itself – written into its walls, its culture, its memory, ...

Fasting has been shown to reduce blood pressure, improve cognition, and even reverse chronic disease. But experts say the ...

Gabe Schwartzman, assistant professor of human geography in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tennessee, ...

Little Foot, a 3.67 million-year-old human ancestor, is getting a digital facial reconstruction after her skull was crushed ...

A pair of new studies have provided fresh evidence in the long-running scientific debate—and the result could be ...

An environmental assessment of textile fibre pollution has found natural textile fibres persist in lake sediments, and could ...

The Pakistani political leadership is weak and devoid of any intellect. Its diplomacy is entirely India-China-US focused and suffers from a presumptive view of Afghanistan as a vassal.

AI’s concealed labor has repeatedly led us to overestimate the technology. Humanoid robots are entering a similar phase. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI.