Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Tiny flatworms which usually live in ponds, rivers and streams could replace lab rats in the…

A Croatian freediver has achieved a seemingly impossible feat.

On June 14 of this year, Vitomir Maričić took one last gulp of pure oxygen and lay down in a pool. There he remained, cool as a sea cucumber, for 29 minutes and 3 seconds.

That’s…

People often credit my good handwriting to my Catholic school education—like a nun with a ruler and a taste for corporal punishment perfected my penmanship. But that’s not why. It’s because of my mom. An engineer by trade, she can execute…

Esteban Amaro, director of the Quintana Roo Sargassum Monitoring Network, agrees that fuel is the best product to focus on. Processing the seaweed into other consumer products is possible, but inadvisable given that the health risks of doing so…

One of the biggest factors that determines where fat is stored in your body is your sex. Men tend to store fat around their abdomen, whereas women are more likely to store it on their thighs, bums and hips.

“From the point of view of childbirth…

A small adjustment to one’s walking style can ease osteoarthritis pain as effectively as…

Deadly cloudbursts are wreaking havoc across mountainous regions of India and Pakistan, with…

Have you ever been part of a large group project? You might assume that with more people involved, the work gets done better and faster.

However, as more team members join the group, the effectiveness of each individual doesn’t increase. It…