Growing your own fruit and veg is nothing new. But what if you could grow your own meat from the comfort of your own home? That’s what a company in Japan wants to make possible.
The Shojinmeat Project helps people grow their own meat,…
The number of confirmed planets outside of our solar system—known as exoplanets—has risen to 6,000, NASA has said. There is huge variety across these distant worlds, the space agency says, with discoveries including rocky planets, lava…
Brain cells “clogged” with fat could be hidden drivers of Alzheimer’s disease,…
Australian scientists have tested new materials which could be developed into shark…
It’s that marvelous time of year when the internet gets to vote for its favorite stuffed bear – the wild kind.
Fat Bear Week is officially upon us, and the competition this fall is fierce.
To qualify, Alaska’s brown bears (Ursus arctos) must…
Taking a second look at pottery fragments excavated back in 2005 has rewritten a chapter of Mediterranean history. A team from the University of South Florida (USF) found traces of horse meat in ancient cookware from a Bronze Age site in Sicily….
In early 2025, the Greek island of Santorini was in the news due to the presence of massive earthquakes. The island was plagued with over 28,000 earthquakes in the span of weeks, with some reaching a magnitude of more than 5.0. These earthquake…
It’s a long-held belief that one of our earliest ancestors, Homo habilis, was the first of our genus to transition from prey to predator. Archaeological evidence suggests that they were among the first meat-eaters and the first to use stone…
Researchers in China have opened a new window into the deep past by blasting dinosaur eggs with a laser, dating them directly for the first time.
A micro-laser was used to vaporize small portions of an eggshell, which released a cloud of…
A commonly cited figure is that we blink an average of 12 times a minute while we’re awake and each blink lasts about a third of a second. So that’s 11,520 blinks in a 16-hour day, taking up just over an hour.
So in an 80 year lifetime,…