Category: 9. Sci/Tech

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

It can carry life-threatening diseases. It’s difficult to find and hard to kill. And it’s obsessed with human blood.

The Aedes aegypti is a…

Super-recognizers are aces at remembering faces, but how do they do it?

A new study from researchers in Australia reveals that the people who never forget faces look ‘smarter, not harder’. In other words, they naturally focus on a person’s…

If you’ve ever wondered if octopuses dream, science has a fascinating answer. When these eight-armed masters of disguise fall asleep, they don’t simply settle into a quiet snooze. Instead, they occasionally burst into short episodes where…

In international politics, not every message is delivered through speeches or formal agreements. Sometimes, it arrives on the plate. A new analysis of 457 Portuguese state menus, spanning more than a century, shows that official meals often…

Everyone has looked up at the clouds and seen faces, animals, objects. Human brains are…

A dog shelter rescued my little terrier mix, Gabriela, from an animal hoarding house when she was around 10 weeks old. She lived with about 40 other dogs, and the rescue told me the stench was so toxic that the homeowners were living in their…

Business is good for VPN providers – the companies that provide virtual private networks, encrypted tunnels through which internet data travels, that are used to spoof users’ locations.

Previously, VPNs were a niche interest. They’re now…

Scientists have recently successfully isolated and sequenced the oldest-known RNA from a…