Category: 7. SciTech

There might still be dinosaurs living on Earth today — if not for the giant asteroid.

It’s a long-debated issue, but now researchers say…

Abhi Ghadge, associate professor of supply chain management at Cranfield University in the UK, says there has been “a general kind of negligence” in terms of climate resilience, though that is beginning to change.

Building a detailed understanding of a supply chain can, however, be incredibly…

Hieroglyphics carved on the famous ancient Egyptian Obelisk in Paris could be propaganda praising pharaoh Ramesses II as ordained by the…

A feel for the groove isn’t restricted to humans, but it does seem pretty limited across the animal kingdom. Chimpanzees can keep a beat, but their ability to do so is low compared to Homo sapiens. One species of lemur is better.

A 16-year-old California sea lion (Zalophus californianus)…

Archaeologists have discovered that a well-preserved mummy seems to have been air-dried by stuffing the rectum with wood chips, twigs, fabric and zinc chloride.

The 280-year-old corpse belonged to an Austrian priest and is the first example archaeologists have found of this bizarre – and…

We’ve always called Earth the blue planet, but that color might not be permanent. Previous research claims our oceans were once green, and if environmental conditions shift dramatically, a new study says they could eventually turn purple.

The study, published in Nature Ecology &…

The next major Pacific Northwest earthquake could cause coastal land to sink by up to 6.5 feet in a matter of minutes — and continue to sink…

The causes of the power outage that left millions in Spain and Portugal without electricity on Monday have yet to be fully determined, though service has now been restored across 99 percent of the Iberian peninsula. Red Eléctrica, the public company in charge of operating Spain’s transmission…

The chips in your pantry and the soda in your fridge might be doing more damage than you think. A new global study has linked the widespread consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to hundreds of thousands of premature, preventable deaths.

Published in the American Journal of…

In the year 2000, measles were declared eliminated from the United States. But thanks to declining vaccination rates, Americans may have to contend with a much scarier future for the deadly disease. Today on the show, we talk about the state of measles, and we explain the role Robert F. Kennedy…