Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Octopuses can be fooled into thinking a fake arm is actually their own.

When scientists in Japan pinched an artificial appendage during experiments, octopuses recoiled in defense – swimming away, suddenly changing their color, or retracting…

A 4,000-year-old handprint has been discovered on a clay model intended for an Egyptian tomb,…

Llamas – likely without red pajamas – may hold the key to treating schizophrenia.

The…

Browse the Internet or supermarket shelves, and it seems there are a growing number of products for restoring thinning locks.

Hairfluencers abound, touting serums, sprays, oils and foams that contain a baffling array of ingredients, such as…

“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,” said Ana Caraiani, a mathematician at Imperial College London. “And in a case that you really thought was going to be out of…

A microscopic discovery in a Californian lake ignited significant scientific debate over a…

You don’t need a scientist to tell you that hangovers are bad. Too much alcohol often leads to headaches, nausea and fatigue, and a body-wide wave of inflammation.

This, of course, is to say nothing of the long-term health risks of alcohol…

Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has now traced the ancient ancestors of these bone-burrowers back through 100 million years of evolution.

Deep in the ocean, bone-eating worms from the…

For decades, archaeologists have been digging up enigmatic hominin fossils across East and Southeast Asia. They clearly didn’t belong to our own species, Homo sapiens, nor did they fit neatly into the other well-established species from that…

In February 2025, scientists at the University of Chicago moved the Doomsday Clock to 89 seconds to midnight. The clock is a metaphor for humanity’s risk of extinction and this is the closest it has ever been to ‘boom-time’.

But given the state…