Science and Technolgy blog
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Getty Images) Kei cars are the antithesis of the big American SUV. Where EPA regulations effectively penalize automakers for building smaller, more efficient cars, Japan’s Kei car regulations cap size, weight, and power to just…
Archaeologists have found the skeletons of a man and a woman, along with their valuables, in a room in Pompeii.
Understanding how the brain operates is a monumental task, and scientists have long relied on neuroimaging techniques to capture and analyze brain activity. However, analyzing this data is far from straightforward due to the unique shape of each individual’s brain.…
Enlarge / Roger Stone, former adviser to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, center, during the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee on July 17, 2024. (credit: Getty Images) Google’s Threat Analysis Group confirmed Wednesday that they observed a threat actor backed…
Scientists are testing a “genetically enhanced bacteriophage cocktail” as a treatment for urinary tract infections.
Following the WHO’s declaration that the mpox outbreak in Africa is a global health emergency, Sweden reported its first case of a deadlier clade of the virus.
Enlarge / A Soyuz 2.1b rocket booster with a Frigate upper stage block, the Meteor-M 2-1 meteorological satellite, and 18 small satellites launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome. (credit: Yuri Smityuk/TASS) A Progress cargo supply spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome…
Enlarge / Artist impression of a large asteroid impacting on Earth, such as the Chicxulub event that caused the end-Cretaceous mass extinction 66 million years ago. (credit: Mark Garlick) Some 66 million years ago, an errant asteroid wiped out three-quarters…
The new estimate, based on data from 135 low- and middle-income countries, is more than double the World Health Organization’s official count.
The Chicxulub crater, left behind by the impact, contains elemental traces that suggest the origins of the notorious projectile.
