Category: 7. SciTech

A few minutes of conversation might soon be enough to flag early signs of Alzheimer’s disease. According to a 2024 study from Boston University, a new AI Alzheimer’s detection tool can accurately predict the likelihood of someone developing Alzheimer’s just by analyzing how they…

Studying the dire wolf’s genome also allowed the Colossal team to figure out which features distinguished the ancient wolf from its modern relatives. They settled on traits involving size, musculature, hair color, hair texture, hair length, and coat patterning. They then used gene editing to…

Florida dolphins are starving to death because of harmful marine algae blooms, researchers have said.

In 2013, 8 percent of the bottlenose…

If you’re reading this, you are probably fairly certain that you’re conscious. You likely assume that your loved ones, your less-loved ones and even your weird neighbour are all conscious too.

They look and act like you – a fellow human – so it is reasonable to think they experience the…

As anyone who’s seen a photo of Dwayne Johnson with curly hair can attest — some people were simply meant to be bald. But for the millions of people who have baldness thrust upon them – by genes, ageing, hormones or a medical condition – a new discovery may have just brought them a…

By now, we all know what social media is about. Sure, sites like Facebook and Instagram help us stay connected and keep up with celebrity gossip, but at their core, they’re money-making businesses powered by advertising revenue.

For most of us, that’s a fair trade. A few targeted ads seem…

The X chromosome creates a challenge for human cells. Unlike most chromosomes, which are present in duplicate regardless of a person’s sex, females have two copies of X while males have only one. Females don’t need twice as many of the genes encoded on the X chromosome as males, however, so…

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world’s ills, too. A new study, using NASA laser technology from the International Space Station, reveals the impact of climate change on global tropical forests with…

More and more people are turning to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to have babies. The process can be arduous, requiring injections of costly hormones twice a day for two weeks to mature eggs so that they can be retrieved from the body.

New York startup Gameto is aiming to ease this burden for…

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in…