Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Key Takeaways on the Planets Most Like Earth

• Although astronomers have directly imaged a few dozen gas giants on the scale of Jupiter, Earth-sized planets are too small and dim to be directly imaged.
• That’s not to say there’s a shortage of…

Most of us try to be responsible global citizens while we’re alive. We sort…

We’re constantly told that spending time in nature is good for the body and the mind alike. A large body of research shows multiple health benefits from contact with nature, ranging from stress reduction to an improved immune system and even…

Studying the activity of brain cells has never been straightforward. The central nervous system is incredibly complex, and unraveling the dense mesh of bioelectrical signaling inside is like trying to put an 85-billion-piece jigsaw puzzle…

The fruit of Africa’s marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades.

Only the berries aren’t actually blue in the sense most of us might assume. At least, they don’t…

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up lakebed paved with what appears to be a yellow brick road.

The exploration vessel Nautilus discovered the eerie scene…

For the first time in history, the law is recognizing an insect as a rights holder. In Peru’s central Amazon, officials in Satipo approved an ordinance recognizing native stingless bees as legal subjects with inherent rights.

The ordinance…

Plastic pollution is often seen as an eyesore or a hazard to wildlife. But scientists have found that discarded plastic may also be reshaping the microbial world in ways that directly affect human health.

A new perspective article published in…

According to the CDC, around one in ten (11.4 percent) children have been diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), millions of whom take prescription medication, like Ritalin and Adderall, to manage symptoms such as…

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren’t safe from them in rivers either.

Researchers from Sweden, the US, and the Netherlands analyzed isotopes in several…