Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Fossil hunting has led to countless cases of mistaken identity throughout the ages. Most recently, archaeologists have resolved a mystery involving extinct coelacanth specimens housed at several museums across the U.K. These fish, which lived…

The world around you is colorful, but it wouldn’t seem so bright without your brain. In fact, it is your brain that processes the color information from the color-sensitive sensors, or photoreceptors, called cones, in your retinas, allowing you…

Researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to expose hidden earthquakes and unknown fault lines in Italy’s Campi Flegrei – identifying four times as many earthquakes as traditional models.

“There’s some stuff to iron out but the…

In 2011, a 52-year-old woman arrived at a psychiatric clinic in The Hague, the Netherlands, with a rare and peculiar disorder: within minutes of setting eyes on someone, their face would mysteriously morph into that of a dragon.

Researchers…

The Earth’s mantle is dynamic, shifting and recycling – albeit very slowly, over vast geological timescales – thanks to the presence of active plate tectonics. In contrast, Mars’ mantle is relatively stagnant. Locked inside a single layer…

Wayne Gramlich was there at the very beginning of the Internet. While still in high school in…

From colorful displays to aggressive fights, mating rituals vary widely across the animal kingdom. But one of the strangest comes from male ghost sharks – also known as chimaeras – who use their teeth to grasp onto female mates. The strange…

High cholesterol is, unfortunately, very common.

The British charity Heart UK estimates that nearly half of all adults in England have above-average cholesterol levels, while the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 1 in 10…

New research has identified a possible atmosphere around an Earth-sized planet about 40 light…