Category: 7. SciTech

Researchers based out of the Philippines have created a tunable liquid lens system that could be used in classrooms and other low-cost environments. The system is devised of several droplets of water-based liquid, which vary in size and curvature. The drops are then situated on a…

Under the clinical sterility of glassware, life can do some rather curious things. Whether such behaviors are exclusive to laboratory environments or represent a common survival strategy is often a topic for heated debate.

One bizarre activity glimpsed in past lab experiments has now been…

Chimpanzees can “catch” yawns from an android robot imitating human facial expressions, according to a new study that raises more questions…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are among the greatest cosmic enigmas of our time. First discovered in 2007, these fleeting flashes of radio waves have been puzzling astronomers ever since.

Despite detecting thousands of them, we still don’t know exactly what causes them, where they come from or why…

Imagine the ceaseless cacophony of New York City suddenly stopped. No sirens wailed. No cars zoomed. No subways rumbled beneath…

An elusive fungus capable of generating quantities of a compound used to synthesize the hallucinogen LSD has finally been discovered on the morning glory vine after decades of searching.

Almost a century ago, the Swiss chemist Albert Hoffman hypothesized the whimsical plant might harbor a…

Imagine turning fruit waste into technology that stores electricity. This would reduce food waste and promote clean energy storage….

In your go bag, FEMA recommends packing three days’ worth of food and water, physical maps of local areas, a change of clothing, and copies of important documents. According to a checklist from the agency, these should include birth certificates, medical information, copies of your rental…

In September 2023, Earth rumbled.

Seismic monitoring all over the globe registered a strange signal that repeated every 90 seconds over a whopping nine days, petering out in a way never before seen.

Then the same thing happened a month later. Subsequent analysis of those signals determined…

Many of the manuscripts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls may be much older than previously thought, according to a new study that could transform…