Category: 7. SciTech

A first-of-its-kind pterosaur fossil unearthed in China with its gut content intact has revealed what the dinosaur-era flying reptile ate,…

The growing global health crisis of superbug infections could undo decades of progress in medicine, according to a new report, which warns that…

Tropical lizards love to snack on butterflies, but sometimes, they have trouble telling which end is which. That’s because many butterflies in the Lycaenidae family have evolved marvelously deceptive wings.

A study by two entomologists from the Indian Institute of Science Education and…

The personality of your pet pooch could well be affecting how they respond to TV shows, according to new research, and the findings may prove useful in informing the care and training of our animal companions.

A team from Auburn University in Alabama identified 453 dog owners whose canine…

The world of Bousso’s new theorem still departs from our universe in notable ways. For mathematical convenience, he assumed that there’s an unlimited variety of particles—an unrealistic assumption that makes some physicists wonder whether this third layer matches reality (with its 17 or so…

The problems started with six little red dots. Six small fuzzy spots, among thousands of others, were enough to suddenly bring everything into question.

The dots appeared in images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and, whichever way astronomers and astrophysicists looked at…

Cleaning up the air we breathe may be a win for public health, but it also speeds up global warming. That’s according to a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment, which linked the recent clean-up of air pollution in East Asia to the acceleration of the climate…

While many science books would have you believe the Earth’s lower mantle—the layer deep below the crust—is smooth, it’s actually made up of a mountainous-like topography that moves and changes just like the crust above it. Further, research shows that this lower mantle contains…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

In the wake of the record-breaking wildfires in Los Angeles in January—some of the most expensive and destructive blazes in history—one of the first things California governor Gavin Newsom did was to sign an