Category: 7. SciTech

As anyone who’s seen a photo of Dwayne Johnson with curly hair can attest — some people were simply meant to be bald. But for the millions of people who have baldness thrust upon them – by genes, ageing, hormones or a medical condition – a new discovery may have just brought them a…

By now, we all know what social media is about. Sure, sites like Facebook and Instagram help us stay connected and keep up with celebrity gossip, but at their core, they’re money-making businesses powered by advertising revenue.

For most of us, that’s a fair trade. A few targeted ads seem…

The X chromosome creates a challenge for human cells. Unlike most chromosomes, which are present in duplicate regardless of a person’s sex, females have two copies of X while males have only one. Females don’t need twice as many of the genes encoded on the X chromosome as males, however, so…

With their ability to store carbon, forests are often considered the lungs of the Earth, but they are vulnerable to the world’s ills, too. A new study, using NASA laser technology from the International Space Station, reveals the impact of climate change on global tropical forests with…

More and more people are turning to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to have babies. The process can be arduous, requiring injections of costly hormones twice a day for two weeks to mature eggs so that they can be retrieved from the body.

New York startup Gameto is aiming to ease this burden for…

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for thousands of years) by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in…

Days before a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar, killing over 3,000 people and injuring thousands more, seismologists had warned in a study…

In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to see the product data sheet. Both he and his…

A new study suggests a surprising and potentially game-changing approach to stopping malaria that involves turning human blood into a death sentence for mosquitos. The secret lies in an existing drug called nitisinone, which, once ingested by the insects, kills them within…

At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, buried beneath layers of sediment and sealed off from light and oxygen, ancient phytoplankton have been lying dormant for thousands of years. Now, researchers have revived some of these organisms, making them among the oldest known algae ever…