Category: 7. Science

Infertility affects roughly one in six people worldwide, according to a World Health Organization report. In about half of those cases, the problem lies with the man, often because sperm can’t swim properly.

Now, scientists in Japan have found a…

When NASA launched the Voyager 1 probe back in 1977, the initial objective was to gather information about our solar system — specifically, the region beyond the asteroid belt (between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter). After more than four…

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Earthquake surface ruptures can cause severe damage to infrastructure and, while preventative measures can be taken to allow the structures to adapt in the case of an…

The rice weevil is a pest that buries its eggs inside grains of rice. After hatching, the larva stays inside the grain, consuming it as it develops.

“I had observed rice weevils in grains before, but never one with its wings spread,” You said…

To strike the right balance between privacy and utility, anonymization strategies need to be customized at the individual-level, according to the specific context. We demonstrate this by examining how factors such as the type of task used to…

Lasers are not only for cutting metal or scanning groceries. They can also carry usable electricity across open air without a single wire.

A U.S. team sent electrical power as laser light across about 5.3 miles and turned it back into electricity…