Category: 7. SciTech

In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of…

In 2024, after 60 years of searching, geneticists finally identified the gene behind the marmalade coloration in domestic cats.

Two independent teams of researchers found any fiery-hued fuzz on our beloved clawed floofs is likely the result of a missing segment of DNA in a non-protein-coding…

AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of young people out of a variety of community service projects across the country on Tuesday. The work stoppage was due to cuts attributed to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency,…

Researchers say they are one step closer to finding out if life ever existed on Mars.

An international team has found “compelling evidence”…

Sunscreen may have been essential to the survival of prehistoric humans at a time when Neanderthals were dying out, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan.

European Homo sapiens may have protected themselves from harmful solar radiation using ochre: a natural…

A powerful geomagnetic storm aimed at Earth could disrupt technology and bring a stunning celestial show as far south as Kentucky between…

Walking briskly, and for longer periods of time, could help protect you against heart rhythm abnormalities, and in turn protect you from heart attack, heart disease and stroke.

That’s according to a recent study published in Heart, a title owned by the British Medical Journal.

They found that…

Scientists have used artificial ‘earthquakes’ to uncover new details about magma lurking a few thousand metres below Yellowstone, one of the world’s most closely monitored supervolcanoes.

In the new study, researchers from the University of Utah and the University of New Mexico deployed a…

No one has ever seen axions. But scientists have theorized their existence as a way to explain some of the biggest questions in particle physics, including the nature of dark matter, the mysterious substance that constitutes most the mass of the cosmos. Confirming the existence of axions could…

Bowling’s elusive perfect strike may no longer be a matter of intuition and experience.

A team of researchers from premier world institutions…