Category: 7. SciTech

Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years from Earth. The detection of CO₂ offers clues as to how…

Endometrial cancer is one of the most common cancers in Australian women—and one of the hardest to catch. But a new breakthrough in AI cancer detection is pushing accuracy levels to an unprecedented 99 percent, giving doctors a major new tool in the fight.

This is a massive leap in…

Forget everything you’ve heard about mental decline starting in your thirties. A new study suggests your brain may keep getting sharper well into your forties, allowing for a much higher cognitive skill peak, but only if you keep it engaged.

Researchers from Stanford and the…

Kevin Rader is the senior preceptor in statistics and associate director of undergraduate studies.

Typically, you’re talking about the perfect bracket of 64 games. Sixty-three teams lose and one team…

What if you could listen to your favorite playlist in full clarity without headphones, without disturbing anyone else, and without even lifting a finger? That’s the vision behind a new type of headphone-free music technology being developed at Penn State, and it might just change how…

Earlier this month, in the dead of night, a mysterious spacecraft touched down at Vandenberg Space Force Base near Santa Barbara, California. The craft in question was the eerily-named X-37B – an experimental and highly secretive US government project that has been quietly unfolding for more…

A new 30-year study of eight popular diets has identified the one most likely to keep you healthiest into your 70s and beyond.

The Alternative Healthy Eating Index (AHEI) diet was found to offer slightly greater health benefits than the Planetary Health Diet Index, Mediterranean diet, healthful…

For years, the so-called blue zones—regions where people reportedly live longer, healthier lives—have intrigued scientists and the public alike. In places like Okinawa (Japan), Ikaria (Greece), Ogliastra (Sardinia) and Nicoya (Costa Rica), residents lead a lifestyle that features…

At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the surface of the ocean off the coast of Alaska, where the warm light of the Sun never penetrates, an NOAA Ocean Exploration remotely operated underwater vehicle came across a strange, golden orb.

The bizarre undersea object, encountered during an…