Category: 9. Sci/Tech

What is the vagus nerve?

Your brain is connected to your body through a set of 12 crucial nerve networks that descend through your spine and branch out into your body. Of these, the vagus nerve is probably one of the most important. Its tendrils…

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of an exoplanet for the first…

An 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s…

A remarkable piece of American history, a Revolutionary War-era boat, is slowly being…

A kind of helicopter design first envisioned by the Renaissance-era Italian polymath Leonardo…

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved…

A deep, rhythmic pulse has been found surging like a heartbeat deep under Africa.

At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, where three tectonic plates meet, molten magma pounds the planet’s crust from below, scientists have…

Stone Age Ireland was likely not ruled over by incestuous “god-kings” 5500 years ago, as…

Admit it: you’re currently feeling somewhere between uncomfortably warm and on the verge of spontaneously combusting. Not that we’re judging, mind. This week, temperatures are soaring in the UK and many parts of the US are experiencing a…

Researchers have raised “urgent concerns” after discovering two new bat viruses in China…