Learn more about cross-species adoption and why there are so few recorded cases of it.
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
-
Humans Are Likely the Only Animals That Keep Pets — Here’s Why It’s So Rare in the Wild
-
What ‘Jurassic Park’ got wrong about venomous dinosaurs
We all know dinosaurs were scary. Tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest…
Continue Reading
-
Earth’s Rotation Is Speeding Up — Here’s What It Means for Timekeeping
Find out what’s speeding up Earth’s rotation and why it may force timekeepers to delete a second
Continue Reading
-
Sea Turtle Shells Hold a Hidden Timeline of Ocean Change — and Reveal How the Seas Are Shifting
Learn how researchers use archaeological techniques to show how sea turtle shells grow in layers that capture chemical clues about diet, movement, and ocean change over time.
Continue Reading
-
Iran War Puts Global Energy Markets on the Brink of a Worst-Case Scenario
The war in Iran reached a new extreme this week, as both Israel and Iran launched strikes on oil and gas production and export facilities. The attacks up the stakes in a war that was already choking energy and commodity markets, and will threaten…
Continue Reading
-
Humans in The Andes Appear to Have Evolved a Strange Genetic Ability : ScienceAlert
For thousands of years, humans living high in the Argentinian Andes have relied on drinking water that would make most people deathly ill.
There, naturally occurring arsenic in volcanic bedrock leaches into the groundwater, contaminating the…
Continue Reading
-
Something in Python Blood Could Be The Future of Weight Loss : ScienceAlert
Scientists discovered GLP-1 mimics like Ozempic by way of the Gila monster, and now, a metabolite in python blood is also showing promise for future weight loss treatments – potentially minus some of the uncomfortable side-effects of GLP-1…
Continue Reading
-
China Approves the First Brain Chips for Sale—and Has a Plan to Dominate the Industry
China has made history by becoming the first nation to approve a commercially available brain chip to treat a disability. NEO, the implant developed by Neuracle Medical Technology, translates the thoughts of a person with paralysis into movements…
Continue Reading
-
Alien Life Could Look Nothing Like What We Expect. Here's How Microbes Beyond Earth Might Live Without Liquid Water
Like the lead character of “Project Hail Mary,” some scientists are proposing ways that life might exist beyond a star’s “habitable zone,” often considered the gold standard of potential livability
Continue Reading