With a release set for July 9th, Starry Studio’s Once Human is set to be the latest title to tackle the survival crafting genre. However, this isn’t like many other post-apocalyptic games in the genre. Once Human sees players tackle various monsters and bosses from other worlds…
It may seem remarkable that no American spent the Fourth of July holiday in space for the first 21 years of human spaceflight. Not until 1982 and the 35th U.S. human spaceflight did Americans awaken in space on Independence Day, and then bring their spacecraft back to Earth later in the day to a rousing…
There’s no single magical solution to the current housing crisis, but Habitat for Housing offers a sliver of immense hope to some of those in most desperate need. “Some of our families were spending 75 to 95 per cent of their wages on rent — incredibly insecure,” said Hope Lovell…
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Can you spot a liar? It’s a question I imagine has been on a lot of minds lately…
Pseudomonas aeruginosa — an environmental bacteria that can cause devastating multidrug-resistant infections, particularly in people with underlying lung conditions — evolved rapidly and then spread globally over the last 200 years, probably driven by changes in human behavior, a new study has found…
The modern world only exists because of the brilliance of thousands of inventors who pushed humanity forward. And Scotland has had its fair share of pioneers…
The federal government now says Birju Dattani, the new head of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, did disclose the alias he used to make controversial social media posts — after it initially claimed that information was never shared before he was hired…
A man working on a dairy farm in northeast Colorado has become the fourth human in the United States to test positive for bird flu this year. He had direct contact with infected cattle, and his symptoms included pink eye. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment reports that…
These cats face a plethora of threats from shrinking habitat, diminishing prey, conflict with humans, poaching, and more. But a new report describes isolated success stories that show population declines can be reversed.