Category: 7. SciTech

Dementia is rising around the world. But in China, the numbers have reached staggering new heights, and experts are scrambling to understand why. A recent global study found that dementia cases in China have more than quadrupled in the past three decades, outpacing most other…

Most robberies involve the sort of goods you would typically expect – jewellery, electronics, or just plain old cash. But some thieves set their sights on rather more unusual loot.

Here are some of the strangest things ever stolen.

White gold

In 2022, thieves made off with 60 containers of…

Intermittent fasting has long been associated with weight loss, but new research suggests its effects go far beyond metabolism. Brain scans now show that fasting doesn’t just influence how we eat, it reshapes how we think by changing our brains. The practice appears to strengthen…

It turns out that a shocking number of mammals can glow in the dark.

Shine a blacklight on a mob of Australian animals and you’ll be forgiven that you’ve somehow found your way into a bush doof. But it’s not just Australia. A 2023 study revealed that a lot of mammals exhibit biofluorescence…

“How we end up with similar circuitry was more flexible than I would have expected,” Zaremba said. “You can build the same circuits from different cell types.”

Zaremba and her team also found that in the bird pallium, neurons that start development in different regions can mature into the…

As the old saying goes, you can’t polish a turd, but you can – and arguably should – study them.

Doctors have long known that the contents of our toilet bowls offer real insights into our overall health. Now that wisdom extends to how often we fill those bowls.

Finding the Goldilocks of…

In moments of intense pressure, the mind can feel like it’s spinning. Too many decisions, too little time, and too much to lose. But when your job is navigating life-or-death situations in foreign countries, you need a mental framework that actually works. That’s why CIA operatives…

Sometimes, science moves forward with a spark of genius. Other times, it happens by accident—like when a graduate student shook a vial of liquid and ended up discovering a material that seems to rewrite the rules of nature. That’s how a team at the University of Massachusetts…

Here’s a question you probably shouldn’t ponder while eating: what animal has the fastest pee on Earth? Elephants? Lions? Horses?

One surprising contender, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: cicadas. After examining urine streams from across…

Women always seem to get drunk faster than men for some reason. But what if that weren’t just a stereotype? What if the difference were real, measurable, and rooted in basic biology?

As it turns out, the idea holds up under scientific scrutiny. Researchers at Yale say there are…