Category: 7. SciTech

Humans are animals that measure things. Call us Homo mensura. We have a compulsion to quantify, and for millennia we’ve been inventing new ways to go about it. For anything you can think of, there’s a device to measure it—from sphygmomanometers to spectrophotofluorometers. And of course…

For all the diversity of the human condition, one experience is almost universally painful: Adolescence.

It’s also unusual. Most other species pass from puberty to adulthood quickly, but humans linger for years in a transitional state, not quite children but not quite adults,…

You probably wouldn’t say it to its face, but the famously fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the butt of tiny arm jokes.

But new research could explain their hilarious hands, though it offers no guarantee it will stifle the giggles.

The study suggests that as their prey grew bigger,…

Atlantic hurricane season is almost upon us and the early signs indicate it might be less active than usual. But that’s no reason to delete your weather app and ignore the forecast.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is predicting eight to 14 named tropical systems, of which…

Stored in an open-air warehouse in tropical Darwin, Australia, are dozens of trays containing cylindrical cores of rock.

They are from drill holes bored hundreds of meters below the surface by mineral exploration companies decades ago.

Some of these cores at the Northern Territory Geological…