Category: 7. SciTech

A new species of carnivorous caterpillar, found exclusively on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, has earned the nickname the “bone collector” for…

In a significant leap toward sustainable food innovation, scientists at the University of Tokyo have created the most realistic lab-grown chicken to date, complete with muscle texture and structure that mimics the real thing.

The team used a breakthrough bioreactor system that acts like…

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, written within its complex layers, like the pages of a book, is Earth’s history. Our history.

Research shows there are little-known chapters in that history, deep within Earth’s past. In fact, Earth’s inner core appears to have…

According to the American Lung Association’s latest State of the Air report, more than 156 million Americans are breathing air that is deemed unhealthy. That’s nearly half of the country.

The report analyzed data collected between 2021 and 2023. The results of that analysis paint a…

A new male contraception has been shown in trials to last for at least two years, in a critical milestone moment.

The implantable, non-hormonal…

A newly discovered species of caterpillar has been found creeping through spider webs on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu – and it’s unlike anything scientists have seen before.

Not only does it live in an eerily precarious environment, suspended among webs inside tree hollows, rock crevices…

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O’ahu has found an incredible strategy.

A species of caterpillar that scientists are calling the ‘bone collector’ is not only a carnivore, and a cannibal, it also dresses itself in the…

With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowing to reexamine the childhood vaccination schedule, measles and other previously eliminated infectious diseases could become more common. A new…

Plastic is one of humanity’s most useful inventions… and one of its most persistent problems. Plastic has become so ingrained in modern life that it’s easy to forget how long it lingers once tossed away. The truth is that plastic’s decomposition rate is so slow that most…

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the oldest known ant specimen ever identified. Even better, it’s a member of an extinct subfamily…