Category: 7. SciTech

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the world by a hidden “superhighway”, a…

A first-of-its-kind study estimates that lightning strikes kill 320 million trees every year.

For perspective, these dead trees account for up to 2.9 percent of annual loss in plant biomass and emit up to 1.09 billion tons of carbon dioxide.

Even more striking (pun unintended), the study…

Of all the myriad mysteries of science, the one that’s currently got my neurons in a twist concerns a Toffee Crisp stashed away in my kitchen cupboard. I’m entirely preoccupied by it – it’s like being pulled by some metaphysical tide.

The question is, how? How can a chocolate bar scrape away…

More of us than ever are taking statins. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) reported in October 2024 that around 5.3 million people in England had taken statins or the cholesterol-lowering medication ezetimibe in the previous year.

That’s almost triple the figure for…

Craving a glass of wine with your dinner? The dietary habits of our ape ancestors may be to blame.

To better understand the relationship…

Now, three mathematicians have finally provided such a result. Their work not only represents a major advance in Hilbert’s program, but also taps into questions about the irreversible nature of time.

“It’s a beautiful work,” said Gregory Falkovich, a physicist at the Weizmann Institute of…

In the cold darkness deep beneath the waves of the Arctic Ocean, a hidden barrier appears to separate the haves from the have-nots.

There, in the midnight zone more than 1,000 meters (3,280 feet) below the surface, the gossamer jellyfish of the subspecies Botrynema brucei ellinorae drifting…

Peacock feathers are greatly admired for their bright iridescent colors, but it turns out they can also emit laser light when dyed multiple times, according to a paper published in the journal Scientific Reports. Per the authors, it’s the first example of a biolaser cavity within the animal…

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ quarterly survey of over 130 oil and gas producers based in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico, conducted in June, suggests the industry’s outlook is pessimistic. Nearly half of the 38 firms that responded to this question saw their firms drilling fewer…