Category: 7. SciTech

Roughly 500,000 Americans suffer nerve injuries that require treatment each year, whether from an errant attempt to hack out an avocado pit or an unfortunate woodworking accident. Many will never get full feeling back in their fingers. But a startup has developed a thick and sticky liquid that…

In the sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea, a cultural divide may be underway.

Between the eastern and western communities of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) that call the region home, scientists have discerned distinct differences in communication style.

Eastern whales…

When scientists disagree, sometimes the truth is somewhere in the middle.

That has turned out to be true for the age of an impact crater deep in the remote scrublands of Western Australia’s Pilbara desert.

Initially, the team that discovered the North Pole Dome impact structure (aka Miralga)…

Steve Goodale isn’t used to attention like this. It’s not that he’s unfamiliar with being on camera: His YouTube Channel, Swimming Pool Steve, has amassed nearly 91,000 subscribers covering topics like how to bond concrete and clean a used hot tub.

But the saga of the Lincoln Memorial…

Scientists from the Universiti Malaysia Sabah have discovered a newly identified “parasite of parasites” in the tropical forests of Borneo. More specifically, it is what the researchers describe as a hyperparasite—an organism capable of parasitizing other parasites. In this case, its…