Category: 7. SciTech

Dozens of researchers from around the world have shared their collective review of the role played by the tiny molecule NAD+ in slowing ageing…

The world’s second largest diamond could soon find a new home in a museum or a sheikh’s collection – but first needs to be properly evaluated, the Belgian firm holding it told AFP Monday.

Unearthed last year in Botswana, the 2,488-carat stone known as Motswedi is currently being analysed by…

Feeling tired? Bloated? Having trouble sleeping? Your cortisol levels might be too high – or that’s what social media would have you believe.

Cortisol is the latest chemical to fall under the spotlight as, in many health and wellness influencers’ eyes, it’s to blame for all manner of…

That day in 2019 now seems like a relic of a bygone era.

Jessica Whited shows a photo of one of her proudest moments. She stands with her parents — an autoworker and a schoolteacher — after winning a Presidential Early Career Award signed by President Donald Trump, honoring her as one of…

In a classroom in the Sherman Fairchild Laboratory Building, 6-year-old Marianne Cullen was starting to get the jitters. She was about to meet her favorite scientist, regenerative biologist and axolotl researcher Jessica Whited.

“You might have to hold me up, in case I faint,” the…

On June 20, the Environmental Defense Fund announced that its MethaneSAT satellite had lost contact with Earth and is presumed lost. MethaneSAT, which its builders say is the most advanced methane-imaging satellite ever put in orbit, sought to globally map, then track emissions of methane, a…

As of 2:19 p.m. EST today, it is officially autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Pumpkin patches and apple orchards will replace trips…