Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Americans love potatoes. And while we love our tater tots, our hash browns, and not-so-French…

Hibernation might sound like an extreme way of life: Animals gain a lot of weight quickly, then drastically slow their metabolism to survive off stored energy through long, cold months.

But for all its intensity, hibernation is surprisingly…

Millions of years ago, our ancient ancestors transitioned from the forests to the grasslands of Africa, where their need for new food sources led to their consumption of grasses.

But recent research suggests that the hominins learned to love…

The Universe is chock-full of oddities: stars that blink in and out without explanation, galaxies that eat one another, black holes gone rogue. It’s no surprise that among the billions of galaxies out there in the cosmos, some of them are going…

Sharks with frickin’ lasers are tired news. Peacocks, apparently, are where it’s truly at.

Famous for their dazzling iridescence, peacock feathers are known to contain nanostructures that scatter light in ways that make their plumage shimmer…

When I started studying honeybees in 1998, I quickly noticed just how much people loved them. I also realised that people’s knowledge rarely extended beyond “bees make honey” and “they live in hives”.

Sometimes there would be mention…

With US Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. already shaking up federal vaccine policy, some states are stepping in to preserve access to lifesaving shots in anticipation of further changes.

The federal government has…

The moment Merry Fitzpatrick realized that Gaza’s malnutrition crisis had progressed to a newer and deadlier phase was when surgeons at the few hospitals still operational on the Strip reported that wounds were no longer closing.

“There’s so…

Key Takeaways on What Space-Time Is

• Einstein’s theory of general relativity views time similarly to width, height, and length. As such, both time and space can be curved by gravity. This effectively means that time is slower the closer you are…

A new technology could enable doctors to use microorganisms to diagnose and treat disease from inside the gut microbiome in future, according to a recent study.

Scientists genetically engineered bacteria to emit and respond to light signals, so…