Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Key Takeaways about the Science Behind the Smell of Rain or Petrichor:

• The smell of rain is known as petrichor, a term derived from petro — meaning rock — and ichor — meaning tenuous essence.

• The smell is generated from an oncoming…

Stargazers, mark your calendars! On Sunday, September 21, Saturn will have its brightest display of 2025. The stunning celestial show comes as the ringed planet reaches opposition — a once-a-year alignment that provides the best conditions to…

You know when you stare at cute things for too long and they start to look creepy? I’m thinking garden gnomes, baby dolls, any child in a princess outfit and all cats. Well, now there’s another one to add to the list.

The tufted ground…

The Amazon rainforest is losing the rainfall that sustains it, pushing the world’s largest tropical ecosystem closer to a potential tipping point, scientists warn.

A new study, published in Nature Communications, has found that deforestation is…

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch in a busy city. You’re expending energy, and the exercise is good for you. But what if, on top of that, we could recapture all that freely supplied…

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to…

Eating breakfast later as you get older could be linked to poorer health and an early death, according to a recent study of 3000 adults.

Following participants for an average of 22 years, scientists found that those who tended to eat breakfast…

Plastic particles from takeout containers and other day-to-day products are making their way…

Dutch courage may really help when it comes to speaking a foreign language,…