Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Cats have a reputation for aloofness (and flooffiness), but if you and your feline friend aren’t bonding, maybe you’re just not speaking their language.

Never fear – research from 2020 has shown that it’s not so difficult. You just need to…

The full moon of May 2025, aptly known as the Flower Moon, is almost upon us. Representing the pinnacle of springtime, the moon will gleam in the night sky on Monday, May 12, 2025. Although the moon will be at its fullest in the early afternoon…

A killer fungus is set to spread through new parts of Europe due to rising temperatures,…

Archaeologists have unearthed a “very rare” Roman-era horse cemetery in Germany…

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine, semiconductors, and more. Or, as she puts it,…

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for

A field in the Scottish countryside near the Solway Firth was likely the world’s oldest…

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and welfare, new research shows.

At first glance, Persian cats and pugs don’t seem like they’d have much in common….

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from swimming ancestors.

That’s basically unheard of: While there are many examples of land-dwelling mammals evolving into a…

Repetition has a strange relationship with the mind. Take the experience of déjà vu, when we wrongly believe we have experienced a novel situation in the past – leaving us with an spooky sense of pastness.

But we have discovered that…