Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according…

Microplastics from everyday sources such as water bottles can directly damage the pancreas,…

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the richest stores of natural resources anywhere in the world.

These include critical raw materials – resources such as lithium and rare earth elements (REEs) that are essential for…

An iceberg that calved from the Antarctic ice sheet in 1986 is dramatically turning blue as it rapidly heads towards total annihilation.

Earth satellites that have been monitoring iceberg A-23A over decades show that, in a very short space of…

New York City is one of the noisiest cities in the world. With a population of…

Adolescents are known for risky behavior, with teenagers in the US more likely than younger children to die from injury. But what’s responsible for this uptick in risk-taking around puberty?

Our new observations of physical risk-taking in…

Margaret Thatcher, who was known for sleeping only four hours a night, is often credited with saying “Sleep is for wimps!” But sleep is actually work. Putting down the phone, setting aside personal or political worries—these require…

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal.

Archaeologist Otto Geist came across the bones – two epiphyseal plates from a mammalian spine – on an…