Category: 7. SciTech

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey of the cosmos. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named…

“The more granular your data, the more targeted your response can be,” Krishna adds. Instead of generic advisories like “drink more water,” localized data could drive specific actions: change market or factory hours, deploy cost-effective heat shelters, or set up oral rehydration…

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the patterns that life follows as it spreads across our planet. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers believe life has a hidden…

Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial planets–Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars–and the…

In the dark waters of the deep sea, lurk many curious and enigmatic animals that few have seen. Frilled sharks (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), for instance, have been known about for more than a century, but much of their lives remain mysterious.

We know what they look like from the occasional…

You may have seen videos circulating online of Donald Trump and Elon Musk doing outlandish things – recreating scenes from the TV show Breaking Bad, for example. You may have also seen footage of them getting down to the Village People’s hit ‘YMCA’ during a New Year’s Eve party.

The…

We’re losing our fight to control climate change, which has led a lot of scientists to look for new ways to combat the consistently rising global temperatures. While we’ve come up with a few different solutions to try, many come with additional problems. Now researchers have…

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea ‘spiders’ farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.

Unlike animals like ourselves, who are fed by a solar-powered food chain, those that live in the deep sea have to get creative with their…

Every action in our world is powered by a “force of nature.” Currently, there are four main forces that scientists cling to; gravity, electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction. The latter two are technically considered nuclear forces. However, some scientists…

Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system and antibiotics would have been ill suited to put up a fight. A group of prominent scientists recently cautioned against the synthesis of mirror-image…