Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Never cut a worm in half lengthways. It’ll most definitely not regenerate or, indeed, survive. Should a worm accidentally be sliced widthways, however, perpendicular to the length of its body, it might well live to wriggle another day.

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Hair loss affects millions, yet treatments remain frustratingly complex. Some require a daily commitment, others have side effects—and many simply don’t work for everyone. But scientists may have uncovered a simple hair loss cure…

It’s believed that e-cigarettes have helped millions of people quit smoking in the UK alone, but that doesn’t mean they’re good for you.

Vapes may contain less nicotine, tar and other harmful substances compared to combustible cigarettes,…

Three-quarters of U.S. scientists say they’re considering leaving the country following

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a stadium, the drifting structure has opened up a hidden habitat to the elements.

Researchers working on a ship in the…

Those are pretty stringent constraints, so it wasn’t obvious that the extra memory could ever prove useful. But to their surprise, Buhrman and Cleve showed that if you tweak bits in just the right way, you really can get extra computational…

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that…

It takes more than a year for the postpartum body to settle to its new normal after giving birth – much longer than a three-month ‘fourth trimester’.

That’s according to a recent study by biologists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and…

The urge to become invisible goes back a long way. Hunters and soldiers have been finding ways to camouflage themselves for centuries, but scientists are edging closer to truly making things invisible.

Modern stealth tech can not only shield…

A species of old-growth tree that is totally new to science has been hiding out in a narrow slice of mountain rainforest in Tanzania. Scientists have named the canopy-piercing tree Tessmannia princeps, and they suspect it could live for as…