Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Our dogs love the outdoors, but the outdoors don’t love our dogs. A review of previously published studies, released in Pacific Conservation Biology, has found that pet dogs have a number of negative effects on the environment, from their…

Experts have added another skillset to at least one group of hunter-gatherers: paddling. Research now shows that some stalwart seafarers stroked their way from mainland Europe to the island of Malta, about 60 miles away, about 8,500 years ago,…

Sea lions are typically not aggressive toward humans. However, these usually curious and playful marine animals have been making headlines recently for multiple attacks on people off the coast of California. 

The aggression is linked to a toxic…

A “pink moon” is on its way – and skywatchers in the U.S. should have a great chance…

Beyond the heavy hitters like COVID-19, bird flu, and Ebola, more common viral infections — such as the annual flu — cost the U.S. an estimated $11.2 billion each year in lost productivity alone, leaving a huge burden on our health system and…

The Earth beneath our feet teems with life invisible to the naked eye, and the discovery of an unfamiliar type of soil-dwelling microbe adds to the complexity of this hidden world. A recent study has dug up evidence of a new phylum of microbes…

Dozens of gray whales are dying in Pacific Ocean waters again this year and human-caused

Perhaps inevitably in such turbulent, uncertain times, there’s a renewed interest in cryonics: the freezing and storing of human remains so that they can be resurrected in the future when medical technology is sufficiently advanced.

The appeal…

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA…

On paper, the two most spectacular astronomical discoveries of the last few weeks couldn’t possibly have less in common.

One is an image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope of a newborn star in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, about 450…