Science and Technolgy blog
A new study captured never-before-seen footage of hydrogen and oxygen atoms combining to form a miniature water droplet out of “thin air.” The newly improved reaction could one day help astronauts make water in space.
From the Cook Islands to Poland, people everywhere strive to look their best—but the reasons behind these efforts are not always the same. A new study published in Evolution and Human Behavior explores the diverse motives for enhancing physical attractiveness…
An analysis of satellite data could help predict where rivers will change their course and where their rerouted flows will go.
Marriage is associated with increases in sexist attitudes shortly after marriage, particularly in men’s hostile sexism and women’s hostile and benevolent sexism, according to a study published in Sex Roles. Hostile sexism reflects antagonistic beliefs about women gaining power at…
House cats are getting — and dying of — bird flu. That’s been sparking worries about what risk an ongoing 2024 outbreak of this H5N1 virus poses for furry pets and their owners. Kristen Coleman and Ian Bemis are airborne-viral-disease…
News reports of bird flu striking huge flocks of birds — including farmed poultry — have been ongoing for more than two years. Still, “most people have no idea that we are in the middle of a wildlife emergency —…
The discovery of a building that the Assyrians likely tore down in the eighth century B.C. reveals the political dynamics of that age in Jerusalem.
A recent study published in Frontiers in Neuroscience has shed light on the genetic factors associated with misophonia, a condition in which certain sounds—such as chewing or breathing—provoke intense emotional reactions like anger, anxiety, or disgust. The researchers found that…
Archive.org, possibly one of the only entities to preserve the entire history of the Internet, was recently compromised in a hack that revealed data of roughly 31 million users. A little after 2 PM California time, social media blew up…
Raspberry Pi owners have always been prone to coming up with elaborate, technically-interesting-but-practically-questionable projects, and Pi enthusiast Jeff Geerling has an exciting new submission to that canon: an old AMD Radeon RX 460 GPU, connected to the Raspberry Pi 5’s…
