Category: 7. SciTech

Holograms you can actually touch might sound like something out of Star Trek, but researchers have just brought this sci-fi concept into the real world. A new mixed-reality breakthrough allows users to physically interact with touchable 3D holograms—grabbing, poking, and moving…

Every day, vast quantities of rain fall across the planet. Until now, all that energy has simply gone to waste. But scientists may have found a clever new way to tap into this overlooked natural resource and generate electricity from the falling rain.

In a recent experiment, researchers…

Scientists said this week that they have detected an encouraging sign of life on a planet beyond Earth.

Now, a separate group of…

Could we finally be close to answering one of humanity’s oldest and most profound questions? Thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers believe they’ve uncovered the strongest evidence yet of potential life on other planets.

Located about 124 light-years away in the…

Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Pittsburg facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity as the union representative, says that before they lost their jobs, the researchers at the Morgantown facility had been actively studying how Gulf War soldiers were affected by exposure to Mustard Gas,…

Contrary to what you might think, technology could actually offer some surprising benefits in slowing cognitive decline as we age. At least that’s according to a new study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.

“The terms ‘brain rot’ and ‘brain drain’ get thrown around a lot, and…

It’s nearly peak tick season and bites from the bugs may come with dangerous consequences for meat lovers — and everyone exposed.

Three…

Astronomers have found one of the most promising indications that there could be extraterrestrial life on another planet. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected what they believe could be biosignatures of marine microorganisms on K2-18b, an exoplanet located…

As the United States grapples with rising measles cases and outbreaks in several states, another vaccine-preventable disease is quietly spreading throughout the country.

This year, there have been at least 7,599 cases of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, up from 3,473 cases at this time…

The Large Hadron Collider has been responsible for astounding advances in physics: the discovery of the elusive, long-sought Higgs boson as…