Category: 7. SciTech

Chimpanzees share a sense of curiosity with children and enjoy watching social interactions in a similar way, according to a study.

An…

Imagine a lush forest with tree ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds. Conifers tower overhead, bearing triangular leaves almost…

We’ve all experienced thirst and it’s unpleasant. It’s also the first sign of dehydration, which can progress quickly. Mild to moderate dehydration develops after just a few hours, depending on age, health and environmental factors, and sufferers can experience fatigue, dizziness and…

Will suspended animation ever exist? It already does, if you count animals hibernating over winter. But if you mean the sort of suspended animation depicted in science fiction (where a person is placed in a pod and frozen so they can survive interstellar journeys), that’s a little more…

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey of the cosmos. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, named…

“The more granular your data, the more targeted your response can be,” Krishna adds. Instead of generic advisories like “drink more water,” localized data could drive specific actions: change market or factory hours, deploy cost-effective heat shelters, or set up oral rehydration…

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the patterns that life follows as it spreads across our planet. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, researchers believe life has a hidden…

Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial planets–Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars–and the…

In the dark waters of the deep sea, lurk many curious and enigmatic animals that few have seen. Frilled sharks (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), for instance, have been known about for more than a century, but much of their lives remain mysterious.

We know what they look like from the occasional…

You may have seen videos circulating online of Donald Trump and Elon Musk doing outlandish things – recreating scenes from the TV show Breaking Bad, for example. You may have also seen footage of them getting down to the Village People’s hit ‘YMCA’ during a New Year’s Eve party.

The…