Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland recently taught the one-armed, four-legged ANYmal search and rescue robot to play badminton against a human.

Fans of the sport may be relieved to learn that ANYmal’s skills are unlikely to oust humans from…

The glow-in-the-dark bats you’re hanging to decorate for Halloween might be more biologically accurate than you thought. A new study from scientists at the University of Georgia in the US has confirmed that some North American bats glow under…

Not to be all gothic and theatrical, but the darkness is coming. Come the end of October, the clocks go back. Suddenly, the Sun will set before 5pm and we’ll walk around in astonishment as though it hasn’t happened every year…

A 40-year-old male tourist was swimming and filming about 100m from shore in Hadera off the…

The idea that eating less might make us live longer has been around for thousands of years. Even Hippocrates, the Ancient Greek physician, argued that, “When a patient is fed too richly, the disease is fed as well. Any excess is against…

Key Takeaways on How Big was the Tyrannosaurus rex?

• A Tyrannosaurus rex would have been about 40 feet long and stood 13 feet high.
• We know how big a T. rex is due to the fossils researchers have already discovered. From these fossils, researchers…

Astronomers have discovered a peculiar ‘moon’ shadowing Earth as it moves through space. Known as a quasi-moon, it doesn’t orbit our planet directly but stays nearby as both travel around the Sun.

According to new research published in…

The place is called Giant’s Path, and it’s no coincidence. Remains of local megafauna had already been found in a stream near the city of Canelones, just 45 minutes from Montevideo. Now, an unexpected fossil confirms that the name holds more…

The moon will be at its brightest of the year in early November when the Beaver Supermoon appears over the horizon.

This particular supermoon’s brilliance will shine between November 3 to 5, 2025, with the best time to see it being the early…