Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Why is this conflict happening? The short version is that Trump and his advisers believe that tariffs will help the US economy by encouraging construction of factories here, reducing trade deficits and punishing barriers to entry of US products…

Narcissism has become the armchair diagnosis of the decade. Social media is awash with people flinging the label around. Everyone’s ex seems to be a narcissist, some of our parents are under suspicion, and that office villain? They definitely…

Caffeine doesn’t just make it harder to fall asleep; it changes how the brain behaves during rest. New research shows that caffeine alters brain activity in ways that make sleep look more like wakefulness, pushing neural networks into…

If you thought human birth was seriously twisted, get a load of the Mount Augustus snail from New Zealand. This giant carnivorous gastropod pushes 5-millimeter-wide eggs out of a pore just below its head.

The pain-in-the-neck form of…

Cicadas are back at it again in 2025, already emerging in droves to announce the approach of summer with their screeches. If you live in the Eastern U.S., get ready to meet (and hear) Brood XIV (14), this year’s batch of periodical cicadas. 

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Six gray whales have died in the San…

For centuries, the mystery of how life first began on Earth has fascinated scientists. One leading idea is that our planet once hosted what researchers call an “RNA World.” This theory suggests that long before DNA or proteins…

Key Takeaways on Deep Ocean Exploration:

• We have visually explored less than 0.001 percent of the deep sea floor. To put that in perspective, 66 percent of the planet is deep ocean, and 99.999 percent of that ocean is unknown to us.

• Like…

It would be easy to assume that the bigger an animal’s eyes, the better they must work. However, a new study, published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, has revealed that one of the largest animals on Earth…

A decades-old cold case at the Jersey Shore has been cracked after experts confirmed that…