Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home from mushroom kits.

But this food craze has also unleashed an invasive species into the…

From being the main antagonist of a major video game and now television franchise, zombie fungus like cordyceps have quickly become a popular point of scientific intrigue. However, these interesting mushrooms and fungi have lived far…

Barely a month goes by these days without the Yellowstone supervolcano hitting the headlines somewhere or other, and this one is no exception.

It might be a swarm of Earth tremors or a minor steam-driven explosion that sets the hearts of news…

There’s still a long list of things that separate robots and living beings, but a new study suggests that the list has become just a bit shorter. Developing robots that “grow,” “heal,” and adapt their bodies to their surroundings,…

How your dog reacts to your favourite TV show could say a lot about their personality, according to the latest research.

With the help of hundreds of dogs, a recent Nature study found that excitable pooches were more likely to believe what they…

If you’re scrolling on Instagram, TikTok, or the more specific sub genre #CatTok…

Most of us wouldn’t consider the Middle Ages the epitome of medical sophistication, thanks to our perception of their barbaric and (from a modern perspective) ridiculous strategies for helping the ill. But against all prejudices, medieval…

Earlier this week, health officials in Arizona confirmed a person had died from pneumonic plague. Yes, that plague – the one responsible for killing nearly half of Europe’s population in the 14th century, in what became known as the Black…

A machine that helped with the calculations behind the first moon landing has been acquired…

Archaeologists are convinced they have uncovered the oldest human settlement built on a…