Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Scientists working at a remote British research station in the Antarctic received a special…

Sponges are some of the simplest and least dangerous animals on Earth, but a new species seems to be shooting for a cooler reputation.

A carnivorous “death-ball” sponge is among 30 new creatures found in the deep sea near Antarctica earlier…

Biologist Jon Allen is the proud owner of the world’s oldest ribbon worm on record.

The adopted invertebrate is fondly called Baseodiscus the Eldest, and he is at least 26 years old, probably around 30, according to a new analysis.

When fully…

Key Takeaways On Eating Spiders While You Sleep

• Do you really eat spiders in your sleep? According to experts, no, we do not. Researchers are unsure where the rumor that we eat 8 spiders per year in our sleep came from.
• Most spiders are not toxic…

“This was one of the most significant safety events in US nuclear history and yet it was not significantly dangerous to the public,” said Stein. “That speaks to the robustness of these plants.”

NRC licensing requires reactor buildings to…

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have…

A monstrous shark, predating whales, great whites, or even the bus-sized megalodon, once…

The Beatles’ song Yesterday was written in what psychologists refer to as the “hypnagogic state”. This is the twilight zone between sleep and wakefulness, when we drowsily linger in a semi-conscious state, experiencing vivid mental images and…

Some rodents are naturally calm. Others turn to cannabis to cope. That’s what a new study in Neuropsychopharmacology seems to suggest, anyway, after revealing that higher rates of stress hormones are tied to higher rates of cannabis consumption…