Category Archives: Science
AI toys are gaining ground, but do they help children’s language skills?
A five-year-old sat with a talking AI-powered stuffed animal, as part of a University of [...]
Jul
Mary Anning: the princess of Palaeontology
Mary Anning was born in a little town in South West England in the 18th [...]
Jul
Half Tibetan, half North Indian: a lost Himalayan people emerges from a Ladakh cave
Who were the people who left their dead in a cave 4,000 m above a [...]
Jul
The state is draining ISRO’s hard-won excellence
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is being poisoned by politicisation. With each passing year [...]
Jul
Let’s go round and round: the history and science behind carousels
How do you feel when you are on a merry-go-round? Is it exhilarating? Do you [...]
Jul
Zoopharmacognosy – when animals medicate themselves
An interesting review by G. Allen et al. in Scientific Reports (16,18690: 2026)reports on how [...]
Jul
‘Virtual magnet’ claims reveal why EVs need their rare-earth magnets
There have been a number of news reports recently about a startup in Bengaluru called [...]
Jul
Himalaya’s birds grapple with a seasonal drop in insect prey
As spring approaches in the hyper-biodiverse Himalayas, birds that are accustomed to cooler climes migrate [...]
Jul
Convergent perils: luminaries demand human ethics not be outsourced to AI
The view that artificial intelligence (AI) can pose an existential threat to humankind using technologies [...]
Jul