What are white, pink and brown noise?
What are white, pink and brown noise? ANNE-MARIE FERGUSON, VIA EMAIL Hang on a minute, you may be thinking, I’ve heard of white noise – that untuned radio sound that parents play to sleepless babes – but brown and pink? That’s right, sound now comes in all the colours of Neapolitan ice cream and if […]
If we are all living in a simulation, then what is real and outside of this simulation?
QUESTION OF THE MONTH: If we are all living in a simulation, then what is real and outside of this simulation? TONY H WORCESTER, VIA EMAIL There is no way to know. This isn’t just unknown in the way that the existence of life after death, or parallel universes is unknown; it is an unanswerable […]
The explainer: Fungi
THE EXPLAINER: FUNGI THIS DIVERSE KINGDOM INCLUDES YEASTS, MOULDS, MUSHROOMS AND TOADSTOOLS What are fungi? Fungi are decomposing, fermenting, edible, toxic, carbon-sequestering, disease-causing, disease-curing, pollutant-busting, mind-bending, rain-generating, zombie-making marvels. They underpin almost all life on Earth, but are mostly situated underground and often overlooked. When we think of fungi, mushrooms spring to mind, but these […]
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Could we become cold, ruthless Cybermen?
We assess the likelihood of humanity turning into cyborgs, like Doctor Who’s infamous foe
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Did the T. rex actually have feathers?
How can physics shed light on life’s biggest quandaries?
From the editor
FROM THE EDITOR It’s fair to say that in the West we have an unhealthy relationship with fat. In the UK, before the pandemic, the NHS reported that 28 per cent of adults in England were classified as obese. Fourteen per cent of children aged four to five fall in the same bracket. And these […]