Category: 9. Sci/Tech

For centuries, popular history has framed early medieval England as a land reshaped by a handful of dramatic invasions – Romans departing, Anglo-Saxons arriving, Vikings raiding, Normans conquering. But a new, large-scale study of…

At certain hot spots on the sun’s surface, plasma interacts with magnetic fields to whip up solar storms that careen toward Earth. These active regions can’t be observed from Earth at all times because the sun rotates on its axis; as they…

Some spiders build delicate little nets, others colossal web megacities, and now some in Peru and the Philippines have been found sculpting giant doppelgängers out of silk, prey carcasses, and debris.

This remarkable behavior has just been…

Even a boneless, gelatinous sack lacking a dedicated anus and brain needs its beauty sleep, a new study by researchers from Bar-Ilan University in Israel finds.

Jellyfish sleep a third of every day away, just like we do, despite their…

The world’s “blue zones”, which are home to an unusually high number of centenarians,…

One of the world’s rarest whale species is experiencing a welcome increase in new births this…

A Korean mathematician has solved one of geometry’s most stubborn puzzles, ending a problem that has…

Poor oral health may significantly reduce life expectancy, according to a new Japanese study…

Common self-sabotaging and self-harming practices, such as procrastination, perfectionism, or ghosting others, may appear destructive and purposeless, but may actually have a logical evolutionary explanation.

Outlined in more detail in Charlie…