Category: 7. SciTech

New reports out of the NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography suggest that the carbon dioxide (CO2) levels in Earth’s atmosphere haven’t been this high in millions of years. It’s a striking discovery that raises even more questions about the current state of our ongoing…

The animal kingdoms of Asia and Australia are worlds apart, thanks to an invisible line that runs right between the two neighboring continents.

Most wildlife never cross this imaginary boundary, not even birds.

And so it has been for tens of millions of years, shaping animal evolution in…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Every few years, a Silicon Valley gig-economy company announces a “disruptive” innovation that looks a whole lot like a bus. Uber rolled out Smart Routes a decade ago, followed a short time later by the…

I’ll never forget the day the neuropsychiatrist Dr Peter Fenwick visited my undergraduate psychology class in the 1990s. Tall and dapper with a refined voice and neuroanatomical terms tripping from his lips, Fenwick conveyed old-school authority.

One of the subjects he lectured us about was…

Mysterious dark streaks first observed on Mars in the 1970s are not what many believed they were.

Scientists now say the curious features…

Skywatchers are in for a special treat this June when the Strawberry Moon makes its annual appearance. But this year’s event comes with a rare twist, as it will be the lowest full moon visible in the Northern Hemisphere since 2006, making it an especially captivating sight.

The term…

For years, scientists have watched nematodes build massive superorganisms in the form of writhing towers. But, they’ve only seen it happen in the lab. Now, though, researchers write that they’ve observed these massive, disturbing towers writhing in the wild for the first time…

Can you brew alcohol in your body? Yes, but only if you have a very rare condition called auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), which occurs when certain bacteria and yeasts in the gut break down carbohydrates into ethanol.

People with ABS can appear drunk, despite not having touched an alcoholic…

The world is full of intriguing paradoxes. Does this article still exist when you’re not reading it? If I travelled back in time and killed my grandfather, would I still be writing this now? And how can two socks go into the washing machine, but only one sock comes out? Perhaps the biggest…

For some people, noisy environments are just too much for their brains to handle. A loud restaurant, a party with friends, or even waiting in line to catch the next subway to work can make it almost impossible to focus on what anyone around them is saying. Now, researchers may finally…