Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Scientists have uncovered a stark drop in the evidence-based language used in US political speeches since the 1970s, with significant implications for citizens in the country.

The results, published in the journal Nature Human Behaviour, are born…

Tuesday marks the 55th anniversary of the United States’ Earth Day movement. As the world continues to get…

David Kaplan has been working with silk for decades, molding and shaping it into scaffolds, sponges, and films. His lab, the Kaplan Lab, is strewn with the substance, stacked with cases of silk cocoons and wads of silk from around the world, all…

A large land bridge formed 20 million years ago that connected continents, shaped climates, divided oceans and changed the course of evolution.

That’s according to a recent paper published in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment. It brings…

Every time you master a new recipe, remember a phone number, or finally figure out how to fold a fitted sheet, your brain is learning. But new research shows that the brain learns in a more complex and clever way than scientists once…

In March 2024, a plane carrying the UK defense minister had its GPS signal jammed as it travelled close to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad on a journey between the UK and Poland. The UK government later said the plane was never in danger but…

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters high (58 feet).

The four-story wall of water was finally confirmed a couple of years later as the most extreme rogue…

Everything on Earth, in our solar system, our galaxy, and beyond is contained within the universe. So how much does  science tell us about the…

L-tyrosine, also simply known as tyrosine, is an amino acid and a building block our bodies use to produce protein. Though our bodies make tyrosine from another amino acid called phenylalanine, it has become a popular and trendy dietary…

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an analog calculator that was way ahead of its time… or was it?

A new study suggests the device may simply have been an…