Sci &Tech

Why you are taller in the morning and shorter at night If you have ever measured your height early in the morning and then again at night, the numbers may not match. Many people are surprised to learn that the human body is not the same height throughout the day. In fact, most people are…

Aliens are real. Or maybe not. The possibility of mystical beings watching over us or even walking among us is not just the ramblings of the fringe and Reddit users, but a key political and societal debate in the U.S. President Donald Trump, on Thursday, February 19, 2026, announced that he was directing the Pentagon…

Key Points 👉 Visit the Official SleepLean Website Chip giant Nvidia, the world’s most valuable company, will report its earnings on Wednesday, which could have a sizable impact on the market. “Nvidia’s earnings are widely viewed as a barometer for the strength and durability of the global AI investment cycle,” Camilla Papaleo, product manager at…

The science of taste The Miracle Berry contains a compound called miraculin that binds to sweet receptors and can make acidic foods like lemon taste sweet for about an hour. START THE QUIZ 1 / 5 | You don’t ‘taste’ most of what you call taste. Instead, a large share of the flavour comes from…

Amazon logo on brick office building facade with windows, San Francisco, California, Aug. 29, 2025. Smith Collection | Gado | Archive Photos | Getty Images The head of Amazon’s artificial general intelligence lab is leaving the company less than two years after joining through a so-called acqui-hire deal of his startup Adept. David Luan announced…

When Isaac Newton wrote Opticks, published in 1704, he divided the colour spectrum into the now famous VIBGYOR, a set of seven colours (the decision was not, as such, scientific because Newton’s choice was dictated by ‘7’ being a significant number in alchemy.) What Newton observed was a series of hues merging into one another,…

A person using a laptop and mobile phone. Tom Werner | Digitalvision | Getty Images Applications are now open for the fourth edition of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies list, produced in partnership with market research firm Statista. Each year, CNBC and Statista chart the top fintech players from around the world, ranging from startups…

The story so far: India and Brazil signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on rare earths and critical minerals during President Lula da Silva’s state visit to India on February 21, 2026. The joint statement said the two countries want to work together across the full mineral “value chain” and that the understanding includes exploration,…

Aneel Bhusri, co-founder of Workday, speaks at the Workday Charity Classic on the Stanford University golf course in Stanford, California, on Aug. 28, 2024. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Workday shares fell 10% in extended trading on Tuesday after the human resources and finance software maker reported light quarterly guidance. Here’s how…

Source: Chandra X-Ray Observatory Astronomers have spotted something unusual. A star, much like our own Sun when it was young, is blowing a bubble through space. The star, called HD 61005, lies about 120 light-years from Earth. It seems ordinary at first glance. Same mass as the Sun, similar temperature. But it’s only around 100…