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How Artificial Intelligence May Be Rewiring Our Brains

A recent study suggests that frequent reliance on artificial intelligence tools may be linked to a decline in critical thinking skills.

calendar 6.7.2025
reading-time 6 minutes

Bringing the Museum into Your Living Room

From Galileo’s contraptions to computers, from butterfly collections to dinosaurs. Even if you’re stuck at home, you can still make an online visit to nature and science museums around the world

calendar 22.6.2025
reading-time 12 minutes

Why and When Did Humans Start Shaving?

Even in cave paintings, human figures are depicted without beards. When and why did modern humans begin to part ways with their natural appearance and start removing facial hair?

calendar 15.11.2024
reading-time 8 minutes

Reckoning with Our Climate Impact: Shared Responsibility for a Shared Future

To effectively confront the climate crisis, humanity must collectively recognize our responsibility for the environmental damage caused and our moral obligation to address our mistakes with determination and fairness

calendar 31.10.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

Archiving Scientific Knowledge in the Digital Age

Scientific content appears more accessible than ever, but virtual memory is full of gaps, leading to the loss of digital information

calendar 27.8.2024
reading-time 10 minutes

Ancient Star Catalogs: Mapping the Skies

Over two thousand years ago astronomers already began to systematically map stars

calendar 27.7.2024
reading-time 8 minutes

Navigating the Ethics of Social Robots

Social robots can offer positive benefits, but it is crucial to advance legislation that regulates their development

calendar 8.5.2024
reading-time 9 minutes

Just Dare Stand in Her Way

Even today, talented women still have to fight for their place – in science, in academia, and in general. But they are no longer willing to remain silent.

calendar 8.3.2024
reading-time 5 minutes

Detecting Deception: How Can We Identify Liars?

Do the eyes reveal the truth? It turns out we are not very good at figuring out when we are being lied to.

calendar 29.10.2023
reading-time 9 minutes

‘Publish or Perish’ – The Quest For Scientific Publishing

A caricature raises an important discussion on the flaws of the method that pushes scientists to publish more and more

calendar 9.7.2023
reading-time 7 minutes

Exploring The Ecology of Medieval Knight Tales

Unearthing lost medieval narratives through ecological models

calendar 15.6.2023
reading-time 5 minutes

On Garlic, Magnets and The Scientific Revolution

For over 1,500 years, scholars believed in a fact that any child could disprove with a simple test.

calendar 12.1.2023
reading-time 8 minutes

Why We Lie: Uncovering the Motivations Behind Deception

People lie from infancy to old age. Why is it that such a common and sometimes beneficial action, considered negative?

calendar 28.12.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

How Did Scurvy Help the Sicilian Mafia?

The history of organized crime would have looked different if it weren’t for citrus fruits

calendar 11.11.2022
reading-time 7 minutes

״But, Everyone Knows It’s True!״ – On Scientific Consensus

A proven scientific theory can become consensus, but consensus could also have negative aspects

calendar 14.7.2022
reading-time 8 minutes

The Book Ahead Of Its Time – Newton’s ‘Principia Mathematica’

The “Principia”, Newton’s groundbreaking book that shaped our understanding of the laws of gravity and physics, overcame many an obstacle on its way to recognition

calendar 14.7.2022
reading-time 9 minutes

Abortions: Science vs. Politics

As abortion bans, supposedly science-based, come into effect in some U.S states, what does science know about abortions?

calendar 30.6.2022
reading-time 12 minutes

The Author at the End of the Universe

Science, art, imagination and plenty of humor accompanied Douglas Adams’ far-too-short life.

calendar 25.5.2022
reading-time 6 minutes

Literary Brainwash – Books, Scientists and Everything in Between

Science, Inventions and Scientists in Popular Literature

calendar 22.4.2022
reading-time 1 minutes

Is The End Of The World Near?

For many generations we have been threatened with an apocalypse that could destroy humanity – What does science have to say about it?

Is the Nobel Prize Noble? A Legacy of Innovation and Dispute

Can the controversies surrounding the Nobel prize be resolved by adapting it to the 21st century?

calendar 19.12.2021
reading-time 14 minutes

The Mathematical Secrets of Pop-It – Tracing Back to Ancient Times

Why do we enjoy popping bubble wrap, and how does a simple mathematical secret guarantee victory in a game of Pop-it?

calendar 15.11.2021
reading-time 9 minutes

The Writer Who Reinvented Science Fiction

Centenary of the birth of Stanislaw Lem, whose unique writing combined science fiction, social criticism, linguistic virtuosity and satire

calendar 30.9.2021
reading-time 13 minutes

Benjamin Franklin – The Man, Electricity and the United States

Benjamin Franklin, born in 1706, was an exceptional innovator in both science and social developments

calendar 3.7.2021
reading-time 13 minutes