Category: Science & Engineering

TV star Ben Grylls says he does it for survival – and teaches his reality show contestants to do the same. Mexican boxer Juan Manuel Márquez practised this therapy to train for his 2009 fight with Floyd Mayweather Jr (he lost). Former Indian prime minister Morarji desai claimed a daily glass of the stuff was […]

QUICK FACTS Where is it? North America What’s in the video? The moon’s shadow, or umbra, passing over the continent Which satellite took the video? GOES-16 When was it taken? April 8, 2024 This striking satellite footage shows the moon’s shadow racing across North America at more than 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h) during 2024’s historic […]

A never-before-flown Falcon 9 rocket launched the newest round of Starlink internet satellites Monday (April 7), in an afternoon liftoff from the U.S. West Coast. The booster, likely the one designated B1091, was the second new rocket that SpaceX has launched so far this year, both of which supported Starlink missions. Monday’s flight, known as […]

Every star that hangs upon the evening firmament will one day die, its lights snuffed and its fires cooling in the dwindling cosmic end times. We don’t always know when, but for a binary star system around 150 light-years from Earth, a precise time of death has now been discovered. Some 23 billion years from […]

Menopause can have profound effects on heart health, yet many people are unaware of this important connection. The hormonal shifts occurring during menopause mark the end of a woman’s reproductive years and contribute to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, the most common cause of death among women globally. As estrogen levels drop, changes in […]

An ancient slab of Earth’s crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day’s North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab’s pull has created giant “drips” that hang from the underside of the continent down to about 400 miles (640 kilometers) deep inside the mantle, according to a […]

Male roundworms are worse at learning from experience than their mates, according to a new study, often to the point of embracing life-threatening risks. Curiously, this lack of good judgment seems to settle down once they’ve had sex, suggesting an urge to reproduce dominates the male worm’s brain over risk of harm. The researchers link […]

Two scientists will share a Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences for research that has revolutionized our understanding of multiple sclerosis. The two prize winners — Dr. Alberto Ascherio of Harvard and Dr. Stephen Hauser of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) — will share $3 million for the award. For comparison, a Nobel Prize […]

Wildgate | Reveal Trailer – YouTube Watch On If you’re one of the millions of players who have sampled Sea of Thieves since its launch way back in 2018, and found yourself thinking “this is fun, but what if it was in space?”, some former Blizzard devs have got some great news for you. Wildgate […]

Growing older can take a toll on your hearing, but even more than your age, a new study has revealed another biological factor that may influence how your ears respond to sound: your sex. According to an international study“women consistently exhibit higher sensitivity” to loud clicking noises at low, mid, and high frequencies. When the […]