Category: 7. SciTech

A new tectonic fault could be emerging beneath the Atlantic Ocean, raising the risk of powerful earthquakes and tsunamis that could ripple across the basin. That’s according to a new study published this week in Nature Geoscience.

For centuries, scientists have puzzled over why Portugal has…

“You’ve always made a lot of noise in your sleep,” my adoring wife tells me as we get ready for bed. “That’s why I have to wear these.”

Over on her side of the bed, she’s fitting industrial-grade plugs into her ears. On mine, I’m placing a magnetic strip over the bridge of my nose to see if…

It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging?

A recent study concluded that extreme heat accelerates the aging of the human body, a worrying fact given the increasing frequency of heat waves due to climate change.

The researchers are not talking about the…

Get in your 10,000 steps. Sleep eight hours. Don’t drink over 14 units a week. These are just a few of the ‘essential’ health guidelines we’re supposed to live by, but who can really manage all of the above? And do these ‘commandments’ stand up to scrutiny?

Here’s how the top…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Seen from space, Antarctica looks so much simpler than the other continents—a great sheet of ice set in contrast to the dark waters of the encircling Southern Ocean. Get closer, though, and you’ll find not…

As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued to hit some impressive milestones.

Both occurred during relatively anonymous launches of the company’s Starlink satellites but are nonetheless notable because they underscore…

You know your field of research has hit the mainstream when it appears on The Kardashians, and so it was with mixed feelings that longevity scientists saw Khloé screaming with excitement as she opened the results of a biological age test on the show. Khloé is chronologically 40, but her…

The best inventions solve practical solutions to everyday problems, doing so efficiently and with a bit of style. But sometimes things don’t exactly work out like this. Sometimes inventions can appear rather strange, either because they attempt to solve problems that do not exist, or they…