Category: 7. SciTech

We’re losing our fight to control climate change, which has led a lot of scientists to look for new ways to combat the consistently rising global temperatures. While we’ve come up with a few different solutions to try, many come with additional problems. Now researchers have…

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea ‘spiders’ farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.

Unlike animals like ourselves, who are fed by a solar-powered food chain, those that live in the deep sea have to get creative with their…

Every action in our world is powered by a “force of nature.” Currently, there are four main forces that scientists cling to; gravity, electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction. The latter two are technically considered nuclear forces. However, some scientists…

Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system and antibiotics would have been ill suited to put up a fight. A group of prominent scientists recently cautioned against the synthesis of mirror-image…

Jumping spiders are all the rage among entomologists, but an entire genus living in New Zealand’s South Island rocky alpine regions, comprising 12 different species, has managed to evade human identification – until now.

This actually isn’t too surprising once you see where these new…

We’ve known about the existence of the rare Antarctic gonate squid since 1898. However, it has taken us over 100 years to actually see this squid alive. The creature dwells far beneath the glaciers of the Antarctic, and has been a long-sought-after discovery for over a century. But…

Middle-aged people in the very early stages of Alzheimer’s disease may become more sociable, not less, according to a new major study.

The research, based on data from almost 500,000 British people over the age of 40, found that those at higher genetic risk for Alzheimer’s were more likely…

Eli Lilly’s daily anti-obesity pill orforglipron appears to be as good at spurring weight loss and lowering blood sugar in diabetes patients as popular injectable GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, according to new data from a Phase 3 trial. The results were announced today at the annual meeting of the…

Is coffee a health drink? While we’ve seen some interesting and often polarizing reports about just how healthy coffee is over the years, one thing appears to remain clear: there are some health benefits to drinking coffee. However, researchers say that just how good or bad it is for…

And because methane is invisible and odorless, it can be difficult and expensive to monitor it and prevent it from getting out. As a result, researchers and environmental activists say the industry is likely releasing far more than official government estimates show.

Methane also seeps out from…