Category: 7. SciTech

You’ve probably seen the videos as you scroll through your social media feed: It starts with a cat minding their own business, calmly eating kibble or wet food. Behind the feline, however, sits a…

In a world of calorie-counting fitness trackers and workouts promising to ‘shred your belly fat’, we’ve grown used to the idea that exercise equals weight loss. The more miles on the treadmill, the more calories you burn, the more weight you stand to lose… right? 

Not necessarily. 

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For most of us, a fast car is just a tool to get us from A to B – to pick the kids up from school or procure the weekly shop. For others, however, it’s about getting to B with a grin on their face and their ears still ringing – the groceries, inevitably, left behind (though maybe not the…

Humans can effortlessly talk about an infinite number of topics, from neuroscience to pink elephants, by combining words into sentences. This is thanks to compositionality: the ability to combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of its units…

A promising new material created from plants could help replace the single-use plastics that dominate our everyday lives. Developed by researchers in Japan, this cellulose-based paperboard is durable, waterproof, and fully biodegradable, making it one of the most compelling contenders…

By the time you’ve read this sentence, lightning could have struck Earth as many as 270 times. That may sound like a lot, but according to the UK’s Met Office, there are about 44 lightning strikes every second. Put another way, that’s about 3,000,000 strikes a day, globally.

Given that…

The color purple has long been a symbol of royalty, creativity, and mystery. But according to science, it’s also something else: a figment of our imaginations. While it looks just as real as red or blue, purple is actually an optical illusion crafted by your brain.

Look closely at a…

About 13,000 satellites currently orbit Earth, roughly 10,000 of which are operational. But that number is set to skyrocket, with a staggering 50,000 new satellites on track to join them by 2030.

The dramatic increase is due to the rise in internet-beaming megaconstellations of satellites, such…