Category: 7. SciTech

Despite the unpredictable weather, spring officially arrives this Friday, marking the vernal equinox – a precise celestial event with global…

“Four minutes is too long.”

That’s the note undergraduate Chris Zuo sent me along with photos of countless mosquito bites on his bare…

Despite being declared the third-hottest year on record, 2025 was a relatively quiet year for climate disasters in the US. No major hurricanes made landfall, while the total number of acres burned in wildfires last year—a way of measuring the intensity of wildfire season—fell below the…

For decades, dinosaurs, especially the Tyrannosaurus rex, have captured the imaginations of the public and paleontologists alike. In many instances, pop culture has depicted the T. rex as the giant and fearsome hunter that lorded over other dinosaurs.

However, paleontologists have…

The question of why some branches of the tree of life explode into thousands of species, while others remain small, has shaped evolutionary

Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home multiple…

Today it’s widely acknowledged that the future of computing will involve the quantum realm. Companies like Google, Microsoft, IBM, and a few well-funded startups are frantically building quantum computers and routinely claiming advances that seem to bring this exotic, world-changing technology…

Scientists have for the first time documented a red fox preying on a wolf pup, upending what was known about the pecking order among the two…