Category: 7. SciTech

The world of Bousso’s new theorem still departs from our universe in notable ways. For mathematical convenience, he assumed that there’s an unlimited variety of particles—an unrealistic assumption that makes some physicists wonder whether this third layer matches reality (with its 17 or so…

The problems started with six little red dots. Six small fuzzy spots, among thousands of others, were enough to suddenly bring everything into question.

The dots appeared in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and, whichever way astronomers and astrophysicists looked at…

Cleaning up the air we breathe may be a win for public health, but it also speeds up global warming. That’s according to a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, which linked the recent clean-up of air pollution in East Asia to the acceleration of the climate…

While many science books would have you believe the Earth’s lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it’s actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes just like the crust above it. Further, research shows that this lower mantle contains…

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

In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an

A tomato plant emitting screams of distress outside the range of human hearing makes a terrible place for a moth to deposit its babies.

That’s the conclusion that scientists at Tel Aviv University in Israel reached after conducting a careful study to examine the interactions between animals…

Two black holes have collided far beyond the distant edge of the Milky Way, creating the biggest merger ever recorded by gravitational wave…

There may be a genetic reason why some women give birth to only girls or boys. Here’s why

Women who have had multiple children of the same sex are more likely to have another baby of the same sex, a new study has found.

Maternal age and genetics could be ‘weighting the coin toss’ for some…

For scientists studying Thwaites glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, life is as remote as it gets. On a still, cloudy day, it’s white in every direction, completely silent, and you can only get a sense of where you are from looking at undulations of the otherwise featureless…

Walk down the supplement aisle at your local drugstore and you’ll likely spot bottles of NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide)…