For a long time, people looked for a “language gene.” Something clean. Something simple. One switch in the genome that explains why humans can speak and other species can’t. It didn’t turn out that way. A new study suggests that the biological foundations of language are older, messier, and more…
India’s IT sector is not collapsing. It is changing shape. That distinction matters. For years, the standard assumption was simple: if large Indian IT firms grew revenue, they would also grow headcount. That logic is now under pressure. Revenue is still moving, deals are still happening, and AI spending is…
When most people look at a medieval manuscript, they see text, decoration, handwriting, theology, law, or literature. That is already a lot. But researchers are now showing that ancient manuscripts can also be read as biological objects. That shift matters. A parchment page is not just a surface that carries…
For a few years, Big Tech looked like a machine that could only expand. Head counts surged. Hiring seemed endless. The digital economy felt as if it had entered a new permanent phase in which more users, more platforms, more cloud demand, more e-commerce, and more remote work would naturally…
In many parts of the world, air pollution is discussed as a policy problem, a climate problem, or a public-health problem. In Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, it is all of those at once – but it is also something much more immediate. It is a daily survival problem, especially in winter. That…
Every now and then, it is useful to step back from single-topic debates and look at a broader slice of scientific research. A recent set of research summaries from psychology and related fields brings together findings on stress relief, relationships, loneliness, attention, autism, psychotherapy, inequality, education, and even the ethics…
Insults are not my main strategy for resolving interpersonal conflict, which is exactly why I think I can look at them a bit more objectively, from a psychological perspective. When people insult others, what often looks like strength is actually a fragile attempt to regulate hurt, threat, or wounded pride.…
Generative AI is no longer just a productivity add-on for software teams. It is starting to change the basic shape of software development itself. What used to be a coding-first discipline is gradually becoming a supervision-and-orchestration discipline, where developers spend less time writing routine code by hand and more time…
There is something almost mythic about sharks. They move through the imagination as ancient creatures – older than forests, older than dinosaurs, older than almost anything we instinctively think of as familiar. They feel like survivors from another world, as if they belong less to ordinary biology and more to…
When people talk about science fiction films, they usually talk first about scale – the mystery, the technology, the cosmic setting, the size of the ideas. But every now and then, a film set in space reaches somewhere much more intimate. That is what Project Hail Mary did for me.…