Category: 7. SciTech

A 50-year-old cancer patient traveled 300 miles to have a 15-pound tumor removed after…

Despite touting ambitious goals of making America healthier, the Trump administration on Monday revealed in court documents that it is backpedaling on a ban on cancer-causing asbestos.

Last year, under the Biden administration, the Environmental Protection Agency took a long-awaited step to ban…

A new species of dinosaur has been discovered after its fossil sat in a jar in a museum for 20 years. The Bolg amondol, which is named after the goblin from J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, was first discovered in 2005, according to New Scientist. However, its fossil sat in a jar in the…

Each year, a trillion or so fish are pulled from the water, typically destined for our plates. While it’s hardly a pleasurable outcome for the animal, a new study has just put a sobering number on their suffering.

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) hail originally from the Pacific Ocean’s…

Just when you thought TikTok couldn’t come up with anything stranger, here comes the coffee enema.

Yes, that’s right – people are brewing up a fresh pot, and inserting it into their colon through their rectum to stimulate bowel movements. The trend claims to “detox” your body, boost…

Snacking on 50g of almonds – that’s about 45 nuts – every day could improve your cholesterol levels, as well as provide a host of other metabolic benefits.

That’s according to a recent study from Oregon State University (OSU), published in Nutrition Research.

Scientists recruited 77…

One of the most impressive areas of generative AI software like ChatGPT right now involves enhanced computer vision. AI can understand and interpret data from images. That’s why we now have such advanced image and video generation models in ChatGPT, Gemini, Firefly, and other AI…

The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday upheld the state of Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

In a 6–3 decision in United States v. Skrmetti, the justices found that Tennessee’s law is not unconstitutional. The central issue of the case was whether…

Every year, the bogong moth makes an epic journey across Australia.

When the warmer days of spring spread across the country, billions of bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) up stakes and fly, unerringly and only at night, up to 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) to a place they have never been before:…

It’s not every day you find yourself standing in a tea garden in Devon, surrounded by rows of Camellia sinensis – the same plant species…