Gen Alpha is about to have some competition. Babies born from January 1st are part of Generation Beta, a label for those born from 2025 to 2039. The research firm McCrindle said in a blog post that Gen Beta will make up 16% of the global population by 2035, and that many Gen Beta children … Read more
Parradee Kietsirikul/Getty Images AFTER our joyful revelling comes the inevitable season of good intentions. When we make our New Year’s resolutions, we often set ourselves ambitious goals – to run a half-marathon, learn a language or write a novel. One reason these resolutions often fail is that our focus is too wide – we think … Read more
Ready for another amazing year of skywatching? The very first weekend of 2025 offers up a flurry of wintertime astronomy events, eluding a swift meteor shower, a January ‘SuperSun,’ and a lunar planetary pair up at dusk. January’s ‘Quad Watch’ This year, the Quadrantid meteors peak on January 4th with a respectable projected Zenithal Hourly … Read more
LIFE, it could be argued, is like a long game of blackjack. In one common version of this, each person is initially dealt two playing cards. The aim is for your hand to add to 21, or as close to this as you can get without busting. Players can either “stick” with their existing hand … Read more
While our body shuts down in slumber each day, the brain remains busy at work, filing through the day’s recordings and making sense of them with respect to past experiences. Just how fresh memories are processed without blurring into old recollections has never been clear, with scientists hypothesizing different methods of keeping our memories separate … Read more
Ramesses III was one of Egypt’s great warrior pharaohs. A temple he built at Medinet Habu, near the Valley of the Kings, highlights why. On its walls, carvings tell the story of a coalition of fighters that swept across the eastern Mediterranean 3200 years ago, destroying cities, states and even whole empires. “No land could … Read more
Researchers collecting a sediment core sample from Crawford Lake, Canada Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post via Getty Images A long-standing effort to formally place the Anthropocene on the geologic timescale came to a surprising end this year. In March, a panel of academics rejected the proposal to define a new epoch by 12 to 4 votes. Yet for the … Read more
