Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A newly discovered protein from Earth’s toughest animal is inspiring breakthrough therapies for cancer and cardiovascular disease.

Tardigrades, often called water bears or moss piglets, are microscopic creatures that can survive just about…

Protein has long been hailed as a crucial supplement for anyone pursuing health. From building muscle to boosting metabolism or keeping hunger at bay, protein is the latest badge of health in a long line of dietary obsessions that once included…

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…

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…

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…

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…

When two black holes merge into one, they sometimes leave behind ripples in space. These ripples were first predicted by Albert Einstein over a century ago, and now, they’re helping scientists piece together the process that encourages black…

The Taurid meteor shower is an autumn spectacle that can sometimes produce “Halloween fireballs.” Dust, rocks, and other debris from the Comet Encke as they fall through Earth’s atmosphere cause these streaking flashes of light. Larger…