Category: 7. SciTech

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…

“If we went on business-as-usual and admitted a normal class size, then we’d have students we couldn’t support in the program,” says Kimberly Cooper, a developmental biologist at UCSD and associate director of the biology PhD program. One of her undergraduate mentees wasn’t admitted to…

The unevenness of the state of each cloud layer is thought to be the reason why the brightness of SIMP 0136 changes as it rotates. It’s easy to understand if you think of Jupiter, which as a gas giant planet likely has a similar structure and chemical composition.

Or for another way to picture…