Category: 7. SciTech

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Fueled by unusually warm waters, Hurricane Melissa this week turned into one of the strongest Atlantic storms ever recorded. Now a new rapid attribution study suggests human-induced climate change…

But in some ways, the proof was a bit unsatisfying. Jitomirskaya and Avila had used a method that only applied to certain irrational values of alpha. By combining it with an intermediate proof that came before it, they could say the problem was solved. But this combined proof wasn’t elegant….

Mr Olympia Arnold Schwarzenegger has long been a vocal advocate for the importance of sleep. “You grow,” he says, “when you sleep, not when you train.” Professional athletes often follow strict sleep programmes designed around their chronotype (natural preference for wake and sleep…

Ice excavated from deep under the surface of Antarctica has just yielded humanity’s oldest directly dated samples of glacial ice and air ever found.

From beneath hundreds of meters of glacial ice that gradually accumulated over eons at Allan Hills, a team of scientists led by glaciologist Continue Reading

Strange features of a collision point between pieces of Earth’s crust are evidence that the structure may be nearing its end, new analysis suggests.

A careful analysis of the complex boundary where four tectonic plates meet reveals that one of the slabs is tearing itself apart. This process…

Tales of fantastical beasts and supernatural beings are as old as human history. From werewolves and vampires to yetis and deep-sea monsters, mythical creatures have inspired countless folk tales and works of culture – not to mention some elaborate hoaxes.

They have also driven many intrepid…