Category: 9. Sci/Tech

That annoying flicker in your eyelid? It’s usually nothing to worry about. Known as myokymia, this harmless twitch is linked to tiredness, stress, caffeine or screen time. 

Sometimes women wonder if it’s hormonal, but while hormonal shifts…

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with sticks or fibres, or easing gum pain with makeshift “toothpicks”. Some researchers even called it the…

Key Takeaways on How Eggs Get Salmonella

• Eggs can get Salmonella from feces or contaminated bedding that move to a chicken’s reproductive tract. The bacteria can colonize where the egg white and shell are formed, contaminating the egg….

“[The clutch] is like 1950s technology—it’s really boring,” Westerman said (“boring,” for grid operators, is the highest form of praise). ​“The marginal cost of putting this in is like nothing compared to the cost of…

Europe’s wild bees and butterflies are facing an escalating extinction crisis, a new…

Therapies to alter behaviour could be the most effective first step to cure irritable bowel…

People around the world are fascinated by how ancient civilizations managed to move massive weights for their iconic monuments without the modern technologies at our disposal today. One of them are the Rapa Nui people and how they transported…

Some ichthyosaurs are too old, and some ichthyosaurs are too young. But a new species of marine reptile is the perfect age — that is, for revealing one of the most mysterious periods in the ichthyosaur fossil record.

According to a new study…