Category: 9. Sci/Tech

From space, the Iberian Peninsula – primarily occupied by Spain and Portugal – looks like an immovable solid block of land anchoring southwestern Europe. But beneath that apparent stability, the ground is quietly on the move.

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Blinking handles essential eye maintenance, and we usually blink multiple times a minute without thinking much about it, though you might be more self-conscious about your own after the results of a new study on their connection to cognitive…

Death Valley, part of the Mojave Desert stretching across California and Nevada, is known for its extreme weather – but in recent weeks, it has broken records for rain rather than high temperatures.

The US National Park Service (NPS) has…

“Cooking is art—but baking is science,” Bill Nye the Science Guy once said….

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever been detected in human remains, until now. For decades, it has been unclear how the Bronze Age plague spread so…

One of the most complete human ancestor fossils ever found could be an entirely new species,…

Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they’re just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators.

Some plants produce heat, and a new study reveals for the first time that this warmth attracts insects, which in turn…

Most people are not aware of how much radiation monitoring goes on around them all the time, including in public places. Airports have sophisticated radiation detectors, for example. In 2022, devices at Heathrow flagged a package that turned out…

A metal detectorist has discovered a strange Viking Age grave in Norway with scallop shells…

Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over computers in its ability to transfer skills and learn across tasks. A new study reveals how we likely do this.

Led by a team…