Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Humans are adept combiners. As it turns out, so, too, are bonobos. According to a new study in Science, bonobos can combine their calls a lot like humans can, indicating that a hallmark of human communication — an ability called…

Asteroid 2024 YR4 had everyone collectively holding their breath just months ago, but now, it appears that the “city-killer” asteroid has a stronger chance of striking the Moon, not Earth. The asteroid currently has a 3.8 percent chance to…

Four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises have hatched for the first…

Traveling West embodied the United State’s 19th century expansionist tendencies. Traveling East might have been an appropriate tendency for early humans living in what is now Europe near the end of the Ice Age.

A team of researchers describe how…

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the number one cause of death in the U.S. An easy way to help lower your risk is to get the recommended 150 minutes of physical activity per week. Although these recommendations are well known, more than a quarter…

It’s a given that we associate higher exposure to wildfire smoke with decreased lung health. But a new study, for the first time, links breathing in fine particulate air pollution (labelled by public health scientists as PM2.5) to mental health…

Recent research suggests the age of the Great Red Spot – the huge anticyclone vortex in Jupiter’s atmosphere – formed about 190 years ago. Scientists base this on historical measurements of the storm’s size and motion.

Although the Great…

Recent research suggests the age of the Great Red Spot – the huge anticyclone vortex in Jupiter’s atmosphere – formed about 190 years ago. Scientists base this on historical measurements of the storm’s size and motion.

Although the Great…

SpaceX is having trouble with Starship’s upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making remarkable progress with the rocket’s enormous booster.

The most visible sign of SpaceX making headway with Starship’s first stage—called…

In a breakthrough for quantum physics and hypothetical felines – scientists have managed to create a ‘Schrödinger’s cat’ state at unusually warm temperatures.

It’s a state that taps into one of the strangest principles in quantum…