Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Woken up covered in itchy red bite marks again? It’s probably mosquitoes you’re cursing – and those aren’t bite marks, but reactions to the grim little insects’ saliva where they sucked your blood.

Worldwide, there are 3,500 species of…

Sometimes we all need a kelping hand – or fin.

For the first time, orcas have been recorded making and using tools, fashioning pieces of kelp so that they can groom each other as they swim.

The new discovery in these remarkable animals (

Orcas, also known as killer whales, have been documented using lengths of seaweed to scratch…

Researchers have discovered that endangered killer whales in the Pacific Northwest use tools made from kelp to groom one another – a behaviour never before seen in marine mammals.

In a new study published in Current Biology, scientists observed…

Chimpanzees share a sense of curiosity with children and enjoy watching social interactions…

Imagine a lush forest with tree ferns, their trunks capped by ribbon-like fronds. Conifers…

We’ve all experienced thirst and it’s unpleasant. It’s also the first sign of dehydration, which can progress quickly. Mild to moderate dehydration develops after just a few hours, depending on age, health and environmental factors, and…

Will suspended animation ever exist? It already does, if you count animals hibernating over winter. But if you mean the sort of suspended animation depicted in science fiction (where a person is placed in a pod and frozen so they can survive…

Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry air creates some of the best conditions in the world to view the night sky, a new telescope unlike anything built before has begun its survey…

“The more granular your data, the more targeted your response can be,” Krishna adds. Instead of generic advisories like “drink more water,” localized data could drive specific actions: change market or factory hours, deploy cost-effective…