Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Cancer treatment is on the brink of a revolution, and at the center of it all is an innovative approach called Flash radiotherapy. This ultra-fast cancer treatment delivers radiation in less than a second, offering hope for safer and…

A new study has awful news for the Great Barrier Reef. Located off the coast of Australia, this reef is one of the largest in the world. However, this world treasure is in dire need of help, as researchers have conducted a new study…

What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter? Well, for one thing, your cholesterol levels could reach such stratospheric levels that lipids start oozing from your blood vessels, forming…

On a hot and humid Florida night in late August 1859, the sky suddenly lit up. But it was not from fireflies or a fireswamp. Instead, it was the Northern Lights–or aurora borealis. The aurora is usually seen in far more northern…

All the tech we rely on, from cars to smartphones, was engineered using physics. You don’t need to know the science to use these things. But a well-rounded human should understand at least some of the key concepts—along with some music, art,…

Slowly but surely, we are making good on the gadgets we imagined, as kids, that the future would hold. Penny Brown’s video watch from Inspector Gadget? Check. The Starfleet tricoder from Star Trek? Almost there. But web-shooting? Web-slinging?…