Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Off the coast of South Africa, near the fishing town of Gansbaai, two orcas have made a name for themselves worldwide.

Their names are Port and Starboard, and on multiple occasions, they’ve been observed hunting and killing one of the most…

Get it? So a spinning loop produces an oscillating flux; if you graphed its values it would trace out a sine wave. That creates an oscillating voltage in the wire, causing electrons to move, and boom: you have alternating current. You just…

Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold.

Today, we know that lead and gold…

In early December, Ahmed recalls, “we heard tanks advancing from the edge of the yellow line.” Soon, a 14-year-old girl was rushed into the ICU with a shrapnel wound to the abdomen. The girl needed 250 milliliters of blood, “a precious…

A cloned sheep that helped pave the way for the creation of Dolly the sheep has gone on show…

The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life.

Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other kinds of life-forms have not only moved in but