Category: 7. SciTech

For the first time, meteorologists have glimpsed the tiny bursts of ultraviolet light emitted by trees during thunderstorms.

Scientists have long suspected the existence of this invisible phenomenon, thought to be the result of a passing storm’s charge inducing an electric current within…

With days to go until the official first day of spring, it was a tale of two winters in the continental United States….

“Even some sort of really remarkable and extraordinary revelation would certainly not satisfy the social-media-verse,” says Eghigian. “‘Hey, is this another hoax? Is this another game that the government is playing with us? What else are they keeping from us?’”

“I don’t foresee…

In the year that US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been in office, his agency has made unprecedented changes to the childhood immunization schedule, removing universal recommendations for a half-dozen vaccines in favor of “shared clinical decisionmaking.”

The…

In 1995, a California parakeet earned the Guinness World Record for having the largest human vocabulary among birds. “Puck the…

The very existence of left-handedness seems to defy Darwin. According to the theory of evolution by natural selection (in very simplified terms), a species should retain the characteristics necessary for survival and reproduction and discard those that are not very useful. And yet around 10…