Category: Science & Technology

Perhaps you’re trying to grow your hair, get your skin glowing, or stop your nails from snapping all the time. A quick Google search or

How would you like to take a bath in Hell? It sounds like a particularly creative insult – but over in Japan, it’s actually a

Color blindness is a fairly common phenomenon, affecting approximately one in 12 men and one in 200 women worldwide. A much rarer condition is tetrachromacy–the

This week, the most complete thylacine genome yet has been reconstructed in a push for de-extinction, high-THC cannabis leaves a unique signature on users’ DNA,

For humans, communication can be as easy as an eyebrow glance, a subtle cough, or even an emoji. Plants, on the other hand, don’t have

It’s dark, cold, and wet. No, we’re not talking about your winter commute to work, but the depths of the ocean – and while we

There are some numbers that are just a bit special. Pi, for example. 42. Zero. And of course, 13,532,385,396,179. What’s that? You’ve not heard of the special qualities

In the Northern Hemisphere, winter is coming – and with it the usual cavalcade of respiratory viruses. COVID-19 continues to loom large with the latest

You ever looked at Oklahoma and thought, huh? What’s up with that long thin bit sitting on top of Texas like that? Or Maryland, the

This week on Break It Down: the Sun has entered its solar maximum bringing new auroras and geomagnetic storms, a chance find of a thylacine

Eclipses are not exclusive to our planet. While the Moon certainly makes it spectacular, often covering the Sun completely (at least for the next 600

A new preprint study, which has not yet been peer-reviewed, has suggested that playing video games is associated with better cognitive abilities, but does not

Ovulation – it’s the point at which an egg cell is mature enough that it’s ready to leave its cozy home inside a fluid-filled sac

Indulge us for a minute: if you’ve got your phone to hand, pick it up and take a selfie. Which way did you turn your

With a depth of 592 meters (1,943 feet), Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the United States. It’s so deep that a

In September 2022, NASA’s DART mission did something that seemed only possible in science fiction or mythology: It moved a celestial body. Asteroid Dimorphos, the

The Antonov An-225 Mriya was the biggest plane to ever take to the skies. Unfortunately, the colossal aircraft is no longer with us as it