If you think the Pink Sauce was disgusting due to questions arising regarding safety standards, kopi luwak will seem downright gross. Except, unlike the Pink Sauce, this is actually tasty and worth the money. Kopi luwak is made from coffee beans that civet cats eat and then excrete. The flavor […]

New Year’s Eve in 2019 was the ominous farewell to the year. On this day, the WHO’s office in China brought reports of a ‘viral pneumonia’ to light. The first news articles regarding this disease hardly filled an unassuming column in the newspapers. It was preposterous to think it would

Recently, paper mills in China, which fabricate or sell authorship of articles, have been mass-producing forged academic papers — up to 30 per week — for each person who avails of their services. They are doing all this with the help of generative AI tools. While this story was on

The AI boom has also swelled the need for data centers, due to the increased demand for cloud computing. However, these warehouse-like facilities take up a lot of land and energy, thereby contributing significantly to global carbon dioxide emissions. In 2021, the data center industry accounted for 1% of global

AI getting sentience might be the talk of the town when it comes to bringing an existential crisis, but it has a new contender in the alley. Mirror life, initially seen as a panacea against pathogens, may now become what it sought to fight. Scientist Kate Adamala was one of

You thought you were tiring out your high-energy pup. Now, you find yourself tired, with a sore arm from throwing tennis balls and pulling tug toys. “Pawsome” for one, not so for you! However, this behaviour closely resembles addiction. Behavioral biologist Stefanie Riemer and her colleagues exposed 105 dogs to

Boo! Halloween is around the corner, and the scientists have set the tempo by explaining a phenomenon long attached to ghosts and the paranormal— will-o’-the-wisps, or the jack-o’-lantern. Blue flames hover over swamps and marshes, inspiring humans’ creative minds to spin stories of the supernatural from this theatrical flame display.