Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Languages are windows into the worlds of the people who speak them – reflecting what they value and experience daily.

So perhaps it’s no surprise different languages highlight different areas of vocabulary. Scholars have noted that Mongolian…

Heavy drinking doesn’t just damage your liver. New research says it may also shrink your brain, impair memory, and take years off your life. A recent study has drawn a compelling connection between long-term alcohol use and brain…

The likelihood of Alaska’s Mount Spurr…

Key Takeaways on Suni Williams:

• Sunita, “Suni,” Williams was born in Ohio in 1965 and has an extensive career in space.

• During her first outing on the International Space Station (ISS), she set many new records for women in space.

• With her…

When NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams inadvertently spent nearly nine months in space, their bodies likely underwent a series of physiological changes due to the pressures of living in space.

The duo left Earth on June 5, 2024, in…

But states are now struggling with funding their basic emergency management needs which, in the off season, include planning and preparing for future events as well as recovery from past disasters. This is thanks in large part to frozen FEMA…

With Easter around the corner, you’ll have seen chocolate Easter eggs on supermarket shelves. Maybe you’ve bought some already.

But is there a difference between Easter chocolate and the everyday kind? Does Easter chocolate really taste…

Thorin was the name given to a Neanderthal specimen found amongst a small group of Neanderthals that lived between 42,000 years and 52,000 years ago in the Grotte Mandrin, a cave located in southern France. 

According to a 2024 study in Cell…

In 2002, divers in Lake Huron were swimming among the shipwrecks in the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. The sanctuary protects the remains of almost 100 ships that met their demise when trying to navigate through “shipwreck alley.”

The…

Those in Generation Z, born between 1997 and 2012, are the first to grow up with smartphones everywhere – and they’re also among those most likely to believe misinformation, according to a new study.

Led by researchers from the University…