Category: 7. SciTech

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 six-mile-long asteroid, which struck Earth 66 million years ago, wiped… Continue Reading

Earlier this year, Julian Mattucci, also known as “God Emperor Myco,” was creating new generations of spores from some Psilocybe subtropicalis mushrooms that he had procured online from a popular supplier. He claims to have not been “working them for potency” but rather to arrive at a… Continue Reading

Eli Lilly has sent cease-and-desist letters to hundreds of compounding pharmacies, telehealth companies, and medical spas making and selling “compounded” versions of tirzepatide. This hawkish legal strategy indicates that a new phase of the GLP-1 gold rush has begun—a crackdown against any… Continue Reading

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 Scientists have finally managed to put a face to the largest bug to ever… Continue Reading

Astronomers expect a once-in-a-lifetime comet to become visible in the night sky starting this week. It’s the latest in an assortment of 2024 skywatching events, including the Great American Eclipse of 2024 and historically strong appearances of the northern lights. Because this year… Continue Reading

Milton’s enormous storm surge has also highlighted the growing danger from water. More intense hurricanes are pushing higher storm surges due to sea-level rise. These “hurricanes on steroids,” as Olson calls them, are also dumping larger amounts of rain inland, just as Hurricane Helene did… Continue Reading

SpaceX may get clearance from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to complete the next Starship launch as early as next week. The FAA has been a major holdup in SpaceX’s attempts to get more iterations of Starship off the ground. Elon Musk has been quite critical about the… Continue Reading

Yet Hodgkinson worries that researchers in the field will pay attention to the technique, rather than the science, when trying to reverse engineer why the trio won the prize this year. “What I hope this doesn’t do is make researchers inappropriately use chatbots, by wrongly thinking that all… Continue Reading

A new paper published in Current Biology has revealed a startling new fact about comb jellies that scientists weren’t expecting. That surprise? The fact that multiple comb jellies can merge when one is wounded, allowing the two to become one combined creature and heal from… Continue Reading

For more than a century, Tampa Bay has avoided Florida’s most destructive hurricanes. Now Hurricane Milton may end that streak of luck, as the storm is expected to make landfall just south of Tampa Bay in the early hours of Thursday morning. The low-lying shoreline, still strewn with debris… Continue Reading