Category: 9. Sci-Tech

WASHINGTON – Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets. While their origins are poorly understood, astronomers have now spotted…

Scientists from the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) – a biofilm & microbiome research centre – and the National University of Singapore (NUS), have uncovered a surprising strategy plants use to thrive when an…

“A pressured world” could be one of the reasons a mental health helpline received more than 2,000 extra calls last year, an expert said.

Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust said its helpline received 34,350 calls between January…

Cutting onions slowly and using the sharpest knives available can reduce eye irritation,…

The secret to the naked mole-rats’ extraordinarily long life may lie in subtle changes to just four amino acids, researchers report. According to a new study, evolutionary mutations in cGAS – an enzyme in the innate immune system…

Winston Elliott Scott knows a thing or two about being in space.

As a NASA astronaut, Winston took trips into orbit in 1996 and 1997 on board two different shuttles, logging just over 24 days in space by taking part in two missions that…

Scientists from China and Spain have discovered that adding salt to ice can enable it to generate electricity, opening up the possibility of harnessing clean power in cold environments – with a twist.

The team found that when salt-doped ice was…