Category: 9. Sci/Tech

From non-stick frying pans to stain-resistant sofas, some of the most innovative everyday…

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the elusive “vampire squid from hell” for the…

Most UK rivers are contaminated by a chemical called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). This is a…

New Zealand is urging the public to look out for nests of…

A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance.

The newly named Incendiamoeba cascadensis – meaning “fire amoeba from the Cascades”, as

While most 14-year-olds are folding paper airplanes, Miles Wu is folding origami patterns that he believes could one day improve disaster relief.

The New York City teen just won $25,000 for a research project based on an origami fold called…

People can form extremely deep bonds with their pets, seeing them as loyal companions and family members. For this reason, when someone loses a pet, the experience can be as distressing as suffering the loss of a person. 

A key factor that can…

The elusive ‘vampire squid from hell’ has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes.

Hidden in its mix of A, T,…

Game hunters have found startlingly ‘neon blue’ flesh inside of wild pigs in California, triggering advisory statements on potential contamination.

“I’m not talking about a little blue,” Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company, told…