Category: 9. Sci/Tech

After nearly 12,000 years in dormancy, a volcano in Ethiopia has erupted and hurled ash over unsuspecting communities. It’s assumed that Hayli Gubbi, located in the Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, hasn’t erupted at all during the…

Many people claim to have a “golden retriever personality” — and, as it turns out, they might not be wrong.

A new study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, revealed that golden retrievers and humans may have…

Whooping cough (pertussis) is on the rise, and medical experts are linking the surge to falling vaccination rates.

According to official data cited in the BMJ, there was a fivefold increase between 2023 and 2024, with the number of reported cases…

The moon has been Earth’s constant companion for approximately 4.5 billion years, escorting the planet during its myriad journeys around the sun. While its origins are a little hazy — it cannot be definitively said what created the moon —…

On a dry day in Madagascar, hissing cockroaches do something unexpectedly sweet: they huddle together in slow-moving bundles of roach cuddles. A new study in Ethology shows these clusters aren’t random social moments — they’re a…

In early 2025, the Greek island of Santorini was rocked by a swarm of seismic activity, an event that led to school closures and the evacuation of thousands of residents.

Now, scientists have used artificial intelligence (AI) to determine what…

What started as an attempt to catch the vandals damaging crab traps in British Columbia resulted in an intriguing discovery: Canadian wolves are manipulating human tools for their own ends, reeling in traps to collect bait.

According to…

The ancient seafloor around what is now Darwin, Australia, once teemed with Cretaceous sea monsters — long-necked plesiosaurs, torpedo-shaped fish-lizards, and massive bony fish cruised the southern Tethys Ocean 115 million years ago. The…