Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Experts estimate that around 80 percent of the risk of developing colorectal cancer comes from our environment, steering researchers to investigate the role microorganisms play in the disease.

While searching for microbial triggers in the human…

Earthquakes are usually thought of as one-way events. Stress builds up deep underground, a fault snaps, and seismic ruptures race outward from their point of origin, shaking the ground as they go. But in certain cases, researchers have observed…

Deep inside the Greenland ice sheet, radar images have revealed strange, plume-like structures distorting the layering deposited over eons.

Now, more than a decade after their discovery, scientists think they have figured out what causes these…

Researchers have identified a period of sluggish magnetic field flipping for planet Earth, some 40 million years ago – raising big questions about how long these reversals actually take, and how we might be affected by the next one.

Magnetic…

Here ε is the emissivity of the object—how effective it is as a radiator (0 < ε < 1), σ is the Stefan-Boltzmann constant, A is the surface area, and T is the temperature (in Kelvin). Since we have temperature to the fourth power, you can see…

Extreme endurance running can damage red blood…

Archaeologists have successfully excavated a section of a 17th century shipwreck that was…