Category: 7. SciTech

Scientists have finally narrowed down on a long theorised elusive genetic mutation that makes orange cats so unique, unlike any other…

A new DNA analysis of Korea’s all-women extreme divers has uncovered genetic adaptations that uniquely protect them from the intense stresses…

The drama began in 2024, when a sky-scanning telescope known as the Zwicky Transient Facility picked up a sudden brightening in the night sky. But there was a twist: the object, now named AT2024tvd, didn’t match typical patterns for known cosmic events. It wasn’t near a galaxy’s…

Weather forecasters say that an already perilous 2025 is shaping up to be the most active…

We tend to think of silence as empty space. The absence of sound. But, it turns out that quiet isn’t passive at all. In fact, after just three days of intentional silence, the brain begins to physically and functionally rewire itself.

A growing body of neuroscience shows that silence…

Last August, KJ Muldoon was born with a potentially fatal genetic disorder. Just six months later, he received a Crispr treatment designed just for him.

Muldoon has a rare disorder known as CPS1 deficiency, which causes a dangerous amount of ammonia to build up in the blood. About half of babies…

Vegetarians feel the same way about eating meat as about eating poop or human flesh, a new study from the University of Oxford has confirmed.

A study of 252 vegetarians and 57 meat-eaters investigated whether this difference had anything to do with whether the foods were from plants or…

Ginger cats are the result of a bizarre genetic mutation that doesn’t occur in any other species – at least, as far as scientists know.

That’s according to a study, recently published in Current Biology, which found orangeness occurred because of the rogue expression of a gene called…

Chimpanzees in the wild are performing what looks like first aid on each other’s wounds, and primatologists are only just beginning to formally catalogue the behavior.

In the forests of Africa, gathering evidence suggests that some chimp communities rub insects, leaves, or munched materials…

A tomb in Greece that was thought to hold Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II, might instead contain the remains of a young woman and six…