Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The ability to cooperate and work together is not unique to humans; indeed, it’s one of the most successful strategies for collective survival in the whole tree of life, from the give-and-take between symbionts, to the kindness of strangers…

Any chemical that’s called a flavonoid has to taste good. That’s what you’d think, anyway. But some flavonoids are actually famous for their bitter taste, and can cause astringency — the dry, sometimes numbing sensation that’s created…

A fine mist accompanies the clan as the sun rises and they begin their journey. There are 12…

A killer fungus is set to spread through new parts of Europe due to rising temperatures,…

Archaeologists have uncovered a pair of Danish slave ships that sank off the Central American…

The likelihood of an imminent eruption at Bolivia’s “zombie” volcano remains low…

NASA scientists, in collaboration with researchers from Japan’s University of Toho, have used supercomputers to model the far future of Earth’s habitability. Their findings offer a clear—if distant—timeline for the end of life…

A piece of Soviet-era space debris is expected to crash land down to Earth this weekend….

The “over versus under” toilet paper argument has been waged in bathrooms everywhere since it was first invented.

Plenty of space online in the form of polls and listicles has been dedicated to the proper way to orient our toilet paper.

The…

The trees are talking to each other. But it doesn’t happen all the time.

They appear to be…