Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The color purple has long been a symbol of royalty, creativity, and mystery. But according to science, it’s also something else: a figment of our imaginations. While it looks just as real as red or blue, purple is actually an optical…

About 13,000 satellites currently orbit Earth, roughly 10,000 of which are operational. But that number is set to skyrocket, with a staggering 50,000 new satellites on track to join them by 2030.

The dramatic increase is due to the rise in…

When many stars reach billions of years in age and run out of fuel, they become dying…

Ah, the circle of life! Your parents have sex, and nine months later, you arrive into the world (apologies for that image).

But did you know that the temperature around the time of your parents’ hanky-panky might impact your metabolism for the…

Back in 1950, Alan Turing proposed an elegantly simple yet profoundly challenging way to determine whether machines could be said to “think.” Known as the Turing Test, this measure of machine intelligence sets humans and machines in…

It might be time to grant the monkeypox virus a new name. Although the virus (mpox for short) was first detected in lab monkeys in 1958, the original host or reservoir has remained unknown.

Identifying the reservoir is crucial, because it gives…

A Teotihuacan altar, which archaeologists believe was used for sacrifices, has been unearthed…

The lighter creates a tiny spark that jumps from one wire to the other in the front pair. This spark creates electromagnetic waves, with the two wires serving as transmission antennas to amplify the waves. The two wires in back are the receiving…

People conceived during colder months may end up with a lower body mass index and less fat…

Scientists have captured the first footage of an elusive deep sea shark inhabiting the waters…