Category: 9. Sci/Tech

“My cat always watches my phone as I text or read a book,” someone wrote on…

From missing dinosaur feathers to fictitious pack-hunting behaviors, many details of the Jurassic Park movie franchise belong firmly in fantasy.

Yet, incredibly, the films’ central premise may be more realistic than expected: Mosquito meals…

As he addressed an audience of virologists from China, Australia, and Singapore at October’s Pandemic Research Alliance Symposium, Wei Zhao introduced an eye-catching idea.

The gene-editing technology Crispr is best known for delivering…

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

President Donald Trump has made it clear: His vision for Venezuela’s future involves the US profiting from its oil.

“We’re going to have our very large United States oil companies—the biggest anywhere in the world—go in, spend billions…

The fearsome silent hunters of the deep – sharks – aren’t usually hued like a traffic cone, but now and again, nature goes “Hold my beer.”

One spectacular example of this is a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) caught and released by…

We’ve all had the feeling. You’re embarrassed and then there it is: a warm flush creeping up your neck and across your cheeks. The more you think about it, the hotter and redder you get. If someone asks “are you blushing?” it only makes you…

Computer scientists want to know how many steps a given algorithm requires. For example, any local algorithm that can solve the router problem with only two colors must be incredibly inefficient, but it’s possible to find a very efficient local…