Category: 7. SciTech

The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with discoveries including rocky planets, lava worlds, and gas giants enveloping their stars.

Plenty…

Brain cells “clogged” with fat could be hidden drivers of Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study that shifts focus away from…

Australian scientists have tested new materials which could be developed into shark bite-resistant materials to reduce the chances of injuries…

It’s that marvelous time of year when the internet gets to vote for its favorite stuffed bear – the wild kind.

Fat Bear Week is officially upon us, and the competition this fall is fierce.

To qualify, Alaska’s brown bears (Ursus arctos) must be spotted catching sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus…

Common knowledge is something everyone knows that everyone knows. He saw it. She saw it. He knows that she saw it, and vice versa, ad infinitum.

According to Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, humans are constantly occupied with whether information has achieved this…

Researchers in China have opened a new window into the deep past by blasting dinosaur eggs with a laser, dating them directly for the first time.

A micro-laser was used to vaporize small portions of an eggshell, which released a cloud of radioactive uranium atoms. Since uranium decays into…

A commonly cited figure is that we blink an average of 12 times a minute while we’re awake and each blink lasts about a third of a second. So that’s 11,520 blinks in a 16-hour day, taking up just over an hour.

So in an 80 year lifetime, you’ll spend three and half years blinking. That’s…

Can plants enumerate 1-10 on their root tendrils? No. But scientists say certain plants can ‘count’ and even do simple maths because they possess uncanny abilities to keep tabs on insect invaders and their own food stores.

Venus flytraps, for example, famously snap their leaves shut when they…