Category: 7. SciTech

You check food labels, buy BPA-free bottles, and avoid microplastics as best you can, but have you ever questioned what’s in your toothpaste? New independent testing suggests that dozens of popular brands may be hiding an unpleasant surprise: toxic metals. That’s right. You could…

While the menopause occurs as a single day in a woman’s life – when the ovaries cease producing hormones – the time leading up to this life-changing event can last for several years. This extended period in a woman’s life is referred to as the perimenopause.

On average, women hit the…

While the menopause occurs as a single day in a woman’s life – when the ovaries cease producing hormones – the time leading up to this life-changing event can last for several years. This is the perimenopause.

On average, women hit menopause at 51 years old, so the majority of women will…

While the menopause occurs as a single day in a woman’s life – when the ovaries cease producing hormones – the time leading up to this life-changing event can last for several years. This extended period in a woman’s life is referred to as the perimenopause.

On average, women hit the…

Beneath the quiet plains and bustling cities of the U.S. and Canada, an ancient process is slowly playing out. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, pieces of North America’s oldest and most stable rock are dripping into the Earth’s mantle. Yes, you read that…

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface.

The…

Grid batteries have a halo effect for other power generators too. Most thermal power plants—coal, gas, nuclear—prefer to run at a steady pace. Ramping up and down to match demand takes time and costs money, but with batteries soaking up some of the variability, thermal power plants can stay…

It was just another descent into the inky deep when it appeared: a ghostly shape hovering in midwater, delicate and otherworldly. 

For a few fleeting minutes, the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian held steady in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, recording the first-ever footage of a…

It was just another descent into the inky deep when it appeared: a ghostly shape hovering in midwater, delicate and otherworldly. 

For a few fleeting minutes, the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian held steady in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, recording the first-ever footage of a…

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth’s most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a body into multicellular tissue when the pressure’s on.

“The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone,” the international team who made…