Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Fungi can be wonderful. Penicillium molds produce the antibiotic penicillin, which has saved untold lives by warding off bacterial infection. Psychedelic mushrooms alter the mind in profound and psychologically beneficial ways.

But fungi have a…

It has been two hours since the divers left the coast behind. As they reach their designated GPS points in the Gulf of Mexico, their boats’ engines go from roaring to whispering. In pairs, they enter the Celestún Fishing Refuge Zone, one of…

Tiny plastic particles found in the fatty plaque deposits of the neck’s main artery could…

A new species of bacteria that functions like electrical wiring has recently been discovered on a brackish beach in Oregon. The species was named Candidatus Electrothrix yaqonensis in honor of the Yaquina tribe of Native Americans that once lived…

It used to be that when BMW would refit a factory to build a new car, the only way the automaker could check if the chassis would fit through the production line was to fly a team out and physically push the body through the process, making note…

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

You might have heard people talk about the ‘headache bone’, that spot at the base of your skull where headaches seem to brew. But it’s not actually a bone causing the problem.

Although that area involves the occipital bone, it also involves…

You might have heard people talk about the ‘headache bone’, that spot at the base of your skull where headaches seem to brew. But it’s not actually a bone causing the problem.

Although that area involves the occipital bone, it also involves…

A hoard of metal objects unearthed near a volcanic hilltop in Hungary has helped unravel the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be trained to see details in images that escape the human eye, and an AI neural network identified something unusual about a face in a Raphael painting: It wasn’t actually painted by Raphael.

The face in…