Category: 7. SciTech

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning strikes.

While famous inventor and U.S. Founding…

Most US adults have a heart that’s ageing faster than they are – sometimes by more than a decade – according to a new study led by researchers at Northwestern Medicine.

The study, published in journal JAMA Cardiology, used a new calculator to estimate ‘heart age’ in over 14,000 US adults…

Notably, the research showed that apnea can manifest differently in REM sleep: “A lot of the memory consolidation and emotional regulation … happens during REM,” Mander explains. “If you’re waking up during REM because of a breathing event, you’re fragmenting that process. And if…

One of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded just struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific. The magnitude 8.8 quake had its epicentre in the sea just off the Kamchatka coast.

Huge quakes such as these can cause devastating tsunamis. It’s no surprise…

A build-up of meltwater under the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 resulted in a flood of such magnitude that it burst upward through tens of meters of solid ice, fracturing the surface and spilling water to the open air.

It’s the first time scientists have documented this phenomenon in Greenland,…

But the search for such a pill—or indeed any treatment as effective as CPAP—has proved challenging. Dozens of drugs have failed to show efficacy in clinical trials, and while HGNS was first approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in 2014, Miller says that its rollout has been…

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Tuesday, making it the sixth strongest ever recorded…

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to have been “lost” to science.

The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central Barbados during an ecological survey in March by…

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning strikes.

While famous inventor and U.S. Founding…

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning strikes.

While famous inventor and U.S. Founding…