Category: 7. SciTech

The likelihood of Alaska’s Mount Spurr volcano erupting has decreased – but Alaskans…

But states are now struggling with funding their basic emergency management needs which, in the off season, include planning and preparing for future events as well as recovery from past disasters. This is thanks in large part to frozen FEMA funding, which has been caught up in a broader Office…

March this year once again saw the publication of the annual World Happiness Report. The latest international rankings put Finland at number one and several other Nordic countries dominating the top 10.

As always, there are those who question the validity and meaning of the data in this report,…

Holograms you can actually touch might sound like something out of Star Trek, but researchers have just brought this sci-fi concept into the real world. A new mixed-reality breakthrough allows users to physically interact with touchable 3D holograms—grabbing, poking, and moving…

Every day, vast quantities of rain fall across the planet. Until now, all that energy has simply gone to waste. But scientists may have found a clever new way to tap into this overlooked natural resource and generate electricity from the falling rain.

In a recent experiment, researchers…

Scientists said this week that they have detected an encouraging sign of life on a planet beyond Earth.

Now, a separate group of…

Could we finally be close to answering one of humanity’s oldest and most profound questions? Thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers believe they’ve uncovered the strongest evidence yet of potential life on other planets.

Located about 124 light-years away in the…

Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Pittsburg facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity as the union representative, says that before they lost their jobs, the researchers at the Morgantown facility had been actively studying how Gulf War soldiers were affected by exposure to Mustard Gas,…

Contrary to what you might think, technology could actually offer some surprising benefits in slowing cognitive decline as we age. At least that’s according to a new study published in the journal Nature Human Behavior.

“The terms ‘brain rot’ and ‘brain drain’ get thrown around a lot, and…

It’s nearly peak tick season and bites from the bugs may come with dangerous consequences for meat lovers — and everyone exposed.

Three…