Science

Water Wars: Hydrogen, Kangen, Artesian, Spring and Mineral Water — Which One Is Really Better?

Walk into a grocery store, health-food shop or fitness center today and plain water suddenly seems almost old-fashioned. There is hydrogen water, alkaline water, Kangen-style ionized water, artesian water,...

​​If AI thinks it’s conscious, it’s more likely to believe in vampires, karma and ghosts, new study shows. What does it mean for how...

Removing safety guardrails that stop artificial intelligence (AI) from claiming that it's conscious also makes it more prone...

4 Essential Oils That May Help With DHT-Related Hair Thinning

Rosemary, peppermint, lavender and cedarwood are attracting attention as natural scalp-care ingredients—but what does the science actually say? Hair...

Mathematicians made the world’s fairest dice — they’re 60-sided and can never end in a tie

Over dinner at a gaming convention around 2010, board game designer James Ernest turned to his friend Eric...

1,600-year-old skeleton found in a giant jar in Bulgaria may belong to Roman who hid there to escape enemy attack

Archaeologists in Bulgaria have discovered a human skeleton inside a giant Roman jar. It's likely that the individual...

Sites like Gettysburg, Little Big Horn and Chaco Canyon — as well as 99% of American Indian heritage sites — could be endangered by...

In July, a government agency tasked with protecting our cultural heritage abdicated its responsibility, voting to further industry's pursuit of profit over protecting sites...

‘An exciting surprise’: Ancient shark ‘graveyard’ uncovered in Egyptian desert

Scientists have uncovered an ancient shark "graveyard" in the middle of the Egyptian desert.Fossilized teeth from seven shark species dating back millions of years...

HPV-driven throat and mouth cancers are rising in men. Why?

Vaccination against human papillomavirus (HPV) has drastically reduced cervical cancer rates among women who got the vaccine. But as doctors celebrate that news, they're...

From Telegraph Wires to Modern Control Panels: The Early History of Electrical Assembly

Science & History Report | City-Paper Long before automated circuit-board machines, robotic assembly cells and computer-controlled production lines, electrical assembly was a hands-on craft performed...

‘Beyond human intuition’: AI designs chip components 500 times smaller than what engineers could ever imagine

(Image credit: Tony Bi / MPL)Scientists have successfully shrunk three components used in photonic microchips by up to 500 times, leaving considerably more...

Neanderthals may have trekked through the Saudi Arabian desert 55,000 years ago, farther south than experts thought possible

Neanderthals may have trekked deep into the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula around 55,000 years ago, a new study of stone tools suggests.The research,...