Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Dawn is beckoned by choruses of birds all around the world, but we still don’t understand why our avian neighbours insist on such a morning ruckus.

A new study, yet to be peer reviewed, explores this behavior in captive zebra finches (

Last year, orcas sashayed into the world of fashion with dead salmon hats. Now, dolphins are wowing us with flamboyant sea sponge fascinators.

Images of the odd invertebrate-wearing behavior were captured by scientists from the Department of…

In 2011, Deconinck and Oliveras simulated different disturbances with higher and higher frequencies and watched what happened to the Stokes waves. As they expected, for disturbances above a certain frequency, the waves persevered.

But as the pair…

The dawn of the Bronze Age was a tumultuous time for many human societies, as the social order of the preceding Copper Age fell apart. Yet little is known about this pivotal period in human history, including why exactly it happened or how…