Category: 7. SciTech

In a World Cup, some of the most important matches are decided by a penalty shootout. When that moment comes, the captains want to win the coin toss to decide the order of the kicks. The reason is an old belief: that regardless of the skill of the shooter and the goalkeeper, the team that takes…

How much does your mileage vary with speed? Every car is different, but the US Department of Energy estimates that for every 5 mph increase in speed over 50 mph, fuel efficiency declines by 7 percent. In equation form:

Here e₀ and v₀ are the efficiency and velocity at some…

His name is Neil the seal, and this year, he’s gotten absolutely enormous – in size and in popularity.

In case you haven’t seen the viral videos, Neil is a five-and-a-half-year-old southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) who returns each year to the beaches of Hobart, an Australian capital…

The European Space Agency released a satellite image that shows the upheaval left behind by the pair of earthquakes that rocked Venezuela last week.

The image was created using observations from the Sentinel-1 satellites, which are part of the European Copernicus program. These satellites do not…