Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In the 1960s, physicists showed how light could interact with itself in intriguing ways thanks to a process known as second-harmonic generation. In the right kind of material, two photons of a certain frequency can interact to produce another…

They say one person’s trash is another’s treasure, but a chunk of ‘rock’ used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by pretty much anybody’s standard.

The 3.5-kilogram (7.7-pound) stone was found in a stream bed in southeast Romania by…

In January 2025, the World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines recommending a switch from typical table salt to alternatives containing less sodium, aiming to reduce worldwide sodium intake by 30 percent in the next five years.

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Scientists say they’ve found “space tornadoes” swirling in the center of our Milky…

Scientists have announced the surprising discovery of oxygen and other heavy metals in

A powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Mandalay,…

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land before the arrival of the Phoenicians from the Middle East in around 800 BCE. It reveals a much…

Wood that you can see through? It sounds like something that shouldn’t exist, doesn’t it? Well, scientists have already proven it can be done. And now they’ve developed a new kind of transparent wood that acts like glass but with…

In a world chasing cleaner energy, a group of physicists may have uncovered a surprising new way to make power: by tapping into the Earth’s own rotation. That’s right, researchers at Princeton University have finally shown that…

Never cut a worm in half lengthways. It’ll most definitely not regenerate or, indeed, survive. Should a worm accidentally be sliced widthways, however, perpendicular to the length of its body, it might well live to wriggle another day.

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