Category: 7. SciTech

Scientists have long looked for ways to turn the tide in our fight against climate change. So far, no matter what ideas they come up with, none have been solidified as actual missions with concrete goal. But that could change soon, as researchers plan to test a solar umbrella as a way…

YouTuber Drake Anthony, who goes by “styropyro,” has created what he claims is the world’s strongest handheld laser. According to Anthony, the legal limit of a laser pointer is 5 milliwatts, so he decided he wanted to build one 50,000 times stronger.

The result is, to be honest,…

Though the idea might make you squirm, some tumours really can grow their own body parts – or at least fragments of them.

These peculiar formations, called teratomas, arise from germ cells, which have the remarkable ability to transform into any type of tissue.

Normally, germ cells develop…

Unlike Earth, the Moon doesn’t have much of a magnetic field – and yet, a strange pile of rocks on the far side seems mysteriously magnetized.

A new study suggests that a major cataclysm, over and done in under an hour, left a lasting imprint.

A team led by researchers from Massachusetts…

In the same way that “space is big” (as described in Douglas Adams’s The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy), quantum physics is confounding.

Science’s best minds have been puzzling away at it for over a century, pawing at the subject like Schrödinger’s cat playing with a ball of cosmic…

Utah became the first US state to ban fluoride from being added to public drinking water in March. Soon after Florida followed suit, with US Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr telling the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to stop recommending fluoridation nationwide.

As…

Researchers in Canada have found that anxiety could be a key warning sign that a cat is at risk of developing a disease known as feline idiopathic cystitis (FIC).

Being idiopathic, the cause of FIC is currently a mystery. Yet the discovery of heightened skittishness in kitties with recurrent…

Bad news for extreme exercise junkies out there: too much vigorous exercise could temporarily make your immune system less efficient.

At least, that’s what the evidence shows. An analysis from 2023 of over 4,700 post-exercise fluid molecules from firefighters suggests workers who require…

Getting from A to B on a bicycle more often could reduce risk of dementia, possibly by protecting a part of the brain tied to memory functions, new research finds.

A study carried out by researchers from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and the University of Sydney…

Touch both objects. They’re the same temperature, but the wood feels warmer, right? Why is that? It’s not about temperature but thermal energy. When your hand touches an object, there is a heat conduction interaction. Energy is transferred from your warmer hand to the cooler object until the…