Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

In 1939, upon arriving late to his statistics course at UC Berkeley, George Dantzig—a first-year graduate student—copied two problems off the blackboard, thinking they were a…

One of Ireland’s oldest astronomical institutions is continuing its centuries-old tradition…

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to…

Tahlequah is an endangered orca that calls the calm, nutrient-rich waters of the Pacific Northwest home. In 2018, the 26-year-old cetacean made headlines across the world as a symbol of animal grief after she was recorded carrying a dead newborn,…

Scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, have watched our planet’s seasons from space and discovered that spring, summer, winter, and fall are surprisingly out of sync.

Just because two places exist in the same hemisphere, at…

“I think there’s been a large misconception in the Republican Party, thinking that the constituents don’t really care about these issues,” Kelly Ryerson, one of the organizers of the petition, told Grist. “A key part” of the MAHA…

When Santa is done delivering presents on Christmas Eve, he must get back home to the North Pole, even if it’s snowing so hard that the reindeer can’t see the way.

He could use a compass, but then he has a challenge: He has to be able to find…

Monitoring the health of the world’s largest animals has always posed a challenge. Whales spend most of their lives underwater, migrate across vast distances, and are difficult to examine without disturbing them. But a new approach is turning…