Category: 7. SciTech
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Human DNA Found in Lions' Teeth Confirms a Tragic Legend of History
A century-old mystery. Continue Reading
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Genome study cracks mystery of Japan’s first inhabitants
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Some of the earliest inhabitants of Japan came from the Korean peninsula,… Continue Reading
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Why SpaceX catching Starship will change everything about space travel
It isn’t a secret that SpaceX has big plans for Starship, its massive mega-rocket, which has so far seen five test flights since April of last year. As the largest rocket ever created, Starship is a behemoth that will play a vital part in the ongoing endeavors to send humanity to… Continue Reading
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Hunter’s moon: How to see this year’s biggest and brightest supermoon
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter The luminous Hunter’s moon will rise early Thursday morning in the… Continue Reading
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Overeating sugary foods and drinks could be linked to depression
We’ve all been there. You’re sitting in your living room or driving down the road, and suddenly, you have a hankering for something sweet—whether it be a drink or something to eat. While it might be tempting to indulge in that sweet tooth, you should do it in moderation because a… Continue Reading
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Milton Disrupted the Flow of Drinking Water—so Florida Deployed a Machine to Harvest It From Air
David Stuckenberg, cofounder and chief operations officer at Genesis Systems, explains that the WaterCube uses proprietary liquid and solid sorbents—materials that absorb water—that essentially “form a handshake with the water in the air.” The machine then heats these materials to… Continue Reading
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The biggest myth about processed food, debunked by science
Processed foods, particularly of the ‘ultra-processed’ variety, are one of the nutritional hot topics of the moment. Most people, whether or not they work in nutrition, have an opinion about processed foods, and it does not tend to be positive. This is, however, an overly simplistic view of… Continue Reading
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Watch NASA’s historic Europa Clipper launch right here
NASA’s Europa Clipper will take off today. You can watch the launch live during a live stream on NASA’s website. the Europa Clipper mission is one of the most exciting of the year, with NASA planning to send the spacecraft all the way out to the Jovian system, where it will study… Continue Reading
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This bizarre ‘black swallower’ balloon fish can eat an insane amount of food
Life in the deep ocean is tough. It’s dark, cold and the pressure of all that water crushing down is immense. To make things even more challenging for the denizens of the deep, there’s also not a lot of food down there. What little light does manage to trickle down beyond the first few… Continue…
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Discovery of one of the oldest-ever fossils sheds new light on rise of dinosaurs
The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A fossil, believed to be one of the oldest ever, could help explain the… Continue Reading