Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The soil under our feet is teeming with mysterious life forms – possibly more than any other habitat on Earth.

Scientists have now identified a whole new phylum of bacteria, which is abundant and widespread in the “dark forest” of our…

Patterns exist all around the world, creating unforgettable designs exhibited by organisms and acts of nature. Some of these designs even share surprising connections, like a spiral shape seen in both marine mollusks and a newly discovered…

If one were to eat substances from blandest to nastiest, the bracket fungus, Amaropostia stiptica, would sit at the farthest end of the unpleasant spectrum.

A team of scientists determined just what makes that particular fungus so aggressively…

About 100 million years ago, a previously unknown armored dinosaur wielding a clubbed tail lumbered through the Canadian Rockies. The species resembled the well-known ankylosaurus (Nodosaurid ankylosaurs) — but with two major differences.

The…

From the food we eat to the air we breathe, microplastics and their even smaller equivalent — nanoplastics — are just about everywhere. And while the body may expel some of the plastics we’ve consumed, there are still plenty that linger in…

For the first time, a human child has been born thanks to an IVF process powered almost entirely by artificial intelligence. Conceivable Life Sciences is the biotech company behind the AI IVF system, and it has developed a fully…

Pinpointing when animals became our companions is harder than it sounds. Every fossil find and genetic study tweaks what we think we know about the timeline or the circumstances under which domestication occurred. When it comes to cats, the story…

Scientists can study how the human brain and body deal with information that people are likely to experience as distressing. We show test subjects a barrage of images or words designed to burden their nervous systems – exactly the sort of stuff…

Vitamin K – a nutrient we mainly get from green vegetables – might be crucial for protecting our brains against cognitive decline.

According to a new study from Tufts University, US, the vitamin may be particularly useful for maintaining…

The future of climate tech could come not from a lab but from a lake. That’s because scientists are exploring using methane-eating bacteria to fight the constant methane emissions found at landfills.

Methane is one of the most potent…