Category: 9. Sci/Tech

When looking up on a cloudless night, do you notice that stars can sometimes show as different colors? You may even notice yellow, red, orange, and blue stars — not just white.

A star’s color can range from yellow to blue, but you’ll never…

People tell me I look younger than I am. But as flattering as that is, my appearance isn’t that important to me. Well, not compared to my biological age, anyway. 

Representing how well your body functions, your biological age gives a more…

Rare malformations can cause animals to grow two heads – and it seems that kind of thing has been happening for millions of years. In 2006, paleontologists in China described a two-headed fossil from the age of dinosaurs.

Hyphalosaurus is a…

“Cosmologists are often wrong, but never in doubt,” remarked the Russian Nobel Prize-winning physicist Lev Landau. Perhaps he had a point. Perhaps cosmologists should have a little more humility. After all, in their investigations of the…

Look around your home and you’ll see countless amazing inventions that have all made our lives easier – you are reading this on one right now.

However, not all inventions are well thought-out and useful. Some are not fit for purpose, while…

Game hunters have found startlingly ‘neon blue’ flesh inside of wild pigs in California, triggering advisory statements on potential contamination.

“I’m not talking about a little blue,” Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company, told…

Instead of bacteria and viruses burdening us with disease, what if we flipped the script and used their natural talents to give dangerous tumors an infection as a way of fighting cancer?

Microbes come in an incredible variety, armed with a wide…

The miracle of childbirth hasn’t happened in space quite yet, but mice babies have proven that it may not be as risky as previously thought.

Aiming to test how space conditions would impact offspring, a new study sent stem cells from mice in…