Category: 7. SciTech

A first-of-its-kind analysis of Hawaiian volcanic rocks has revealed that the Earth’s core is leaking gold and other precious metals into the…

When you swap two paraparticles, these hidden properties change in tandem. As an analogy, imagine that these properties are colors. Start with two paraparticles, one that’s internally red and another that’s internally blue. When they swap places, rather than keeping these colors, they both…

I don’t have to think very hard to remember when my mother’s memory revealed the first tiniest clues that all was not well.

We were on the phone. I recounted a story of my best friend, Caroline.

“Who’s Caroline?” she asked.

I had known Caroline since I was very young; she was a…

In an effort to prevent their data being used to train AI, some internet users are turning to social media disclaimers, called copypasta.

Copypasta is a chunk of text shared across the internet, which becomes a kind of random text meme.

It might be a bunch of letters, numbers and punctuation…

The recent social media-driven fad of taping one’s mouth shut while sleeping to prevent mouth breathing could pose a serious risk of…

A predator that swam Earth’s oceans more than half a billion years ago is unlike any creature that lives on our planet today.

Mosura fentoni possessed three eyes, grasped its prey with spiny claws, ate with a circular, tooth-lined maw, swam with the aid of flippers that lined either side of…

Scientists have officially brought genetic engineering to the spider’s web. For the first time, researchers have created a gene-edited spider that spins red fluorescent silk.

Led by a team at the University of Bayreuth, the project tackled a long-standing challenge in genetic…

A fresh spritz of perfume might lift your mood, but it could also interfere with your body’s natural chemical defenses, according to new research. Scientists now say that personal care products like perfume and lotion may disrupt what’s known as the human oxidation field, a…

It takes a diver with very keen eyesight to spot one of the ocean’s most adorable molluscs. This species of tiny sea slug, Costasiella kuroshimae – also known as the leaf sheep – grows, at most, to a centimetre in length (about a fingernail’s width). And they’re superbly…

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

For the last two decades, homeowners have been able to claim thousands of dollars in federal tax credits to help offset the high up-front costs of going solar. Things were supposed to stay that way through 2034….