ToK Essays Nov 2024

The Lunar Lab and Regolith Testbeds at NASA’s Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley offer ultra-realistic lighting conditions and terrain features for recreating the two major types of lunar surfaces that future robots, rovers, and astronauts will experience in the Moon's polar regions.

New research has discovered the first case of acoustic mimicry between a mammal and an insect—an acquired skill that could just save certain bats’ skin.

The technique could be used to protect quantum computer data from errors.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

In matters of “survival of the fittest”, time is the ultimate arbitrator. When asked why she continued to smoke rather than quit based on advice from her doctors, a 102-year-old woman replied: “all…

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.

Oxford University

Artists are like magpies who copy from other artists. This form of ‘copying’ is the broad sense of the term ‘replicability’ in this Title. From one point of view, such ‘replication’ leads to the creation of original works of art which make us see the world anew. From another point of view entirely, such copying borderlines on artistic plagiarism, fraud o

Keeping up with the Faerie Queene: from early modern romances to reality TV, does bingeing ‘lowbrow’ culture rot the brain?

Another big project has found that only half of studies can be repeated. And this time, the usual explanations fall flat.