File this under things that we already knew, but a confirmation by science doesn’t hurt. A scientific study by Marmite has revealed that Mondays do indeed suck. The findings fo the study, as reported byThe Telegraph, indicate that many people don’t smile on Mondays until 11:16 am, and that half of us won’t turn up to work on time, either. Mondays also tend to be fairly unproductive, with only about three and a half hours of actual work getting done....

Did you knowNeural is taking the stage this fall? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will explore the future of AI during TNW Conference 2021.Secure your ticket now! If you let NASA tell the story, some of the people walking around on this planet right now may end up taking a stroll on the surface of Mars during their lifetimes. People such as Elon Musk believe we’ll colonize the red planet entirely and become a two-planet species....

Scientists are making see-through wood, and it could replace glass Seeing through wood Wood’s lack of transparency comes from the combination of its two main components, cellulose and lignin. The lignin absorbs light, and the presence of chromophores – light-activated compounds – in the material makes the wood look brown. The fibers in the wood, which mainly comprise cellulose, are hollow tube-like structures. The air in these hollow tubes scatters light, further reducing the material’s transparency....

Seven months after it was launched, the US robotic rover Perseverancesuccessfully landedon Mars on February 18, 2021. The landing was part of the missionMars2020and was viewed live by millions of people worldwide, reflecting the renewed global interest in space exploration. It was soon followed by China’sTianwen-1, an interplanetary Mars mission consisting of an orbiter, lander, and rover called Zhourong. Perseverance and Zhourong were the fifth and sixth planetary rovers deployed in the last decade....

Scientists are trying to redefine how we measure time – here’s why Brief history of time Modern clocks still use Huygens’ basic idea of an oscillator with a resonance – like a pendulum of a fixed length that will always move back and forth with the same frequency, or a bell that rings with a specific tone. This idea was greatly improved in the 18th century by John Harrison who realised that smaller, higher frequency oscillators have more stable and pure resonances, making clocks more reliable....