Category: 9. Sci/Tech

One of the curious features of Taylor Swift’s work is that she regularly uses words borrowed from astronomy and cosmology. “Taylor Swift’s discography frequently incorporates astrophysics terminology,” point out Sophie Newman and Ana…

As soon as the genetic testing company 23andMe filed for bankruptcy on March 23, 2025, concerns about what would happen to the personal information contained in its massive genetic and health information database were swift and widespread.

A…

If you matched a Swiss singer against a monkey vocalist in a yodeling contest, the non-human primate would win handily, according to a study published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.

It turns out apes and monkeys…

Every year, the US sees around 1,200 tornadoes tear across its landscape – but lately, things have felt different. Tornadoes are striking earlier, appearing in unusual places and clustering together with alarming intensity. Now, in early April…

Bronze Age Scandinavians may have traversed from Denmark to Norway directly over the open sea…

Construction workers renovating a Vienna football field stumbled upon a grim piece of…

An ancient stamp unearthed by a metal detectorist suggests the Sutton Hoo was actually made…

Archaeologists have confirmed that a “beautiful stone” picked up by a child in Israel’s…

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth’s crust is dripping into the planetary interior.

There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle of the planet, eventually gaining enough…

Earth’s space junk problem isn’t just growing—it’s accelerating. According to the European Space Agency’s latest Space Environment Report, 2024 saw some of the largest debris-generating events in decades. And with satellite…