19+ hour, 40+ min ago  (414+ words) In case you missed it, for the last seventy years we've been drilling ice cores in places like Antarctica and Greenland. Meaning the extraction of massive poles of ice from deep underground, the ice cores are then analysed, with the…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (463+ words) Being a corporate IT person requires basically unlimited patience. What would you do if you had to drop your entire day to fix an elementary problem? One guy recently shared an insane example of this on Reddit. Here's what he…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (441+ words) Whatever your overall opinion of AI, there's no doubt about the fact that it has issues. Inherently problematic for many reasons, AI has drawn criticism for its effects on the job market, the huge and polluting datacenters required to power…...

1+ day, 16+ hour ago  (442+ words) Back in 2011, it was announced that scientists and biodiversity experts estimate that there are around 8. 7 million species living on our planet. The complicating factor? We know about hardly any of them. In fact, predictions suggested that humans had only actually…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago  (371+ words) Technology can be a double-edged sword in the workplace. In this story, a middle manager at a marketing agency was told AI would improve productivity and reduce workload. Instead, her work increased fivefold, with 12 to 15-hour days and no support....

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (348+ words) When you call someone a big mouth, you don't typically mean that they actually have a large mouth. For the bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus), however, calling them a big mouth would be an absolute understatement. Compared to humans, all whales…...

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (432+ words) It is no secret that our planet is experiencing some wild and variable weather changes year on year, and it is well known that this is down to human-driven climate change. In fact, the warmest year on record was 2024, when…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago  (451+ words) Every year, many of us jet off to somewhere a little warmer, for one or two weeks of paradise before we return to our everyday lives. It's a luxury that we're lucky to have. Every year, billions of birds migrate…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago  (378+ words) In the not too distant future, many hope that we will have established a human colony on Mars. Why Mars? Because it's the only other planet (and maybe Venus) that arguably sit inside the Goldilocks Zone of our solar system....

5+ day, 17+ hour ago  (440+ words) If you live in, or have visited, a cold country, you'll know how much of a struggle it can seem to keep warm. But really, in the modern era, we're lucky. We have thick winter clothing, insulation, underfloor and central…...