Science and Technolgy blog
A recent study in Nature Neuroscience provides new insights into how amyloid-beta and tau proteins, which accumulate in the brains of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease, alter brain activity and potentially contribute to cognitive decline. Researchers observed a progression from hyperactivity…
There are 13 countries that sit on Earth’s equator. Can you get them all in 5 minutes? If so, how fast can you do it?
We loved using the Microsoft Surface Laptop 7, and now the 13.8-inch version is available for 25% off this Black Friday week.
An outburst of solar energy looks primed to hit Earth on Thursday, potentially bringing auroras to the northern U.S. on Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
If Margaritaville were a real place, it should definitely keep a few dermatologists on hand. In a case of an oft-overlooked food preparation risk, a 40-year-old man showed up to an allergy clinic in Texas with a severe, burning rash…
Paleontologists have long puzzled over how the dinosaurs—originally relatively small and of minor importance to the broader ecosystem—evolved to become the dominant species some 30 million years later. Fossilized feces and vomit from dinosaurs might hold important clues to how…
Over the past decade, a new class of infections has threatened Windows users. By infecting the firmware that runs immediately before the operating system loads, these UEFI bootkits continue to run even when the hard drive is replaced or reformatted.…
New images show the rapidly rotating pulsar of the “Guitar Nebula” shooting out a gigantic cosmic plume of plasma, X-rays and supercharged particles spinning along a magnetic field line in interstellar space.
Scientists have found microorganisms crawling over a sample retrieved from the 200 million-mile-distant asteroid Ryugu. But they almost certainly came from Earth.
Russian cosmonauts aboard the ISS were forced to seal a hatch and don protective equipment after the arrival of a cargo vessel brought with it a bizarre smell.
