In Japan people can expect to live beyond 84 years on average—yet in Lesotho life expectancy is just 53 years. The age at which people die still depends a lot on where they live.

Two programmers played a key role in developing chaos theory and the famous butterfly effect, but they’ve been left out of virtually all accounts of the work.

An international team of scientists has found a wealth of well-preserved stony meteorites in the Atacama Desert that allowed them to reconstruct the rate of falling meteorites over the past two million years.

Boiled in hydrogen peroxide and compressed, the wood can passively manage heat.

The European Union has partially approved the shape of its next giant research-spending programme, but it faces political tensions.

Run for serverless containers includes new metrics, supports Cloud SQL, and is available from new GCP regions.

What can gamma rays really do?

You won’t be commuting to the office in it, but by this time next year it could be an entertaining extreme sport.