Category: 7. SciTech

The causes of the power outage that left millions in Spain and Portugal without electricity on Monday have yet to be fully determined, though service has now been restored across 99 percent of the Iberian peninsula. Red Eléctrica, the public company in charge of operating Spain’s transmission…

The chips in your pantry and the soda in your fridge might be doing more damage than you think. A new global study has linked the widespread consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) to hundreds of thousands of premature, preventable deaths.

Published in the American Journal of…

In the year 2000, measles were declared eliminated from the United States. But thanks to declining vaccination rates, Americans may have to contend with a much scarier future for the deadly disease. Today on the show, we talk about the state of measles, and we explain the role Robert F. Kennedy…

Neighborhoods across the Southeast need to be on the look out for venomous Asian needle…

Most fires burn through their fuel in a few hours, days or weeks. When underground fossil fuel deposits catch alight, however, the fires can rage for decades.

The Darvaza Gas Crater, also known as the ‘Gates of Hell’, is a 60m-wide (196ft) pit in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert, which has…

A sea lion named Ronan can now keep time with music as well as – and sometimes better than – people, according to a new study.

Ronan first made headlines more than a decade ago when she surprised scientists by nodding her head in time with music – a skill once believed to be uniquely…

The internet’s latest and absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male

Beginning on May 7, billions of people around they world will have their eyes fixed upon a single chimney. As per tradition, the 135 cardinal-electors gathering at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel to select…

Earlier this year, while boarding a flight out of Houston, Texas, I noticed my slightly overfilled, bulging backpack wouldn’t quite fit in the space between my feet. I bent down, trying to smoosh it…

Australian scientists have developed a shark skin-inspired film coating for aeroplanes, which they claim can reduce drag and save billions in