Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Holograms you can actually touch might sound like something out of Star Trek, but researchers have just brought this sci-fi concept into the real world. A new mixed-reality breakthrough allows users to physically interact with touchable…

Every day, vast quantities of rain fall across the planet. Until now, all that energy has simply gone to waste. But scientists may have found a clever new way to tap into this overlooked natural resource and generate electricity from…

Could we finally be close to answering one of humanity’s oldest and most profound questions? Thanks to NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, researchers believe they’ve uncovered the strongest evidence yet of potential life on other…

Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Pittsburg facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity as the union representative, says that before they lost their jobs, the researchers at the Morgantown facility had been actively studying how Gulf War…

Astronomers have found one of the most promising indications that there could be extraterrestrial life on another planet. With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, researchers have detected what they believe could be biosignatures of…

As the United States grapples with rising measles cases and outbreaks in several states, another vaccine-preventable disease is quietly spreading throughout the country.

This year, there have been at least 7,599 cases of pertussis, also known as…