Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Earlier this year, while boarding a flight out of Houston, Texas, I noticed my slightly overfilled, bulging backpack wouldn’t quite fit in the space…

Australian scientists have developed a shark skin-inspired film coating for aeroplanes, which…

Mosquitoes have been found as far north as Shetland, according to a citizen science project…

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been performing viral video demos since 2013, made its…

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You…

Archaeologists have unearthed a 2,300-year-old Celtic sword in France decorated with glass…

The last time these thrumming, red-eyed bugs burrowed out of the ground across America’s suburbs and woodlands was the early summer of 2008.

Global financial jitters were mounting, iPhones were a luxury item, and George W. Bush was still…

Vaccines have saved millions of lives. But keeping them cold has always been a challenge. In many parts of the world, transporting and storing vaccines means relying on a fragile and costly refrigeration system. Now, a British biotech…

A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying Ebola and other deadly infectious diseases has been instructed by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to stop…

Europe isn’t known for its elephants. At least, the three species of elephant that traverse Earth today — the African elephants Loxodonta africana and Loxodonta cyclotis and the Asian elephant Elephas maximus — aren’t famous for wandering…