Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking that was once considered uniquely human.

In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these…

Paranormal phenomena, including supernatural ‘hauntings’, have been the subject of serious scientific investigation since the emergence of spiritualism during Victorian times.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of paranormal investigations have…

New evidence has been discovered to resolve a case of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the…

The Yup’ik community was spared from much of the widespread devastation remnants of Typhoon…

Fossilized predator bones found in the legendary Cretaceous dinosaur graveyard of Hell Creek did not belong to a baby Tyrannosaurus rex after all.

Analysis of the remains – an almost complete skeleton that forms half of the famous…

An angler in Sweden has uncovered an extraordinary medieval cauldron of historic jewellery…

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to make them immune to HIV and used the embryos to…

The X-59 will generate a lower “sonic thump” thanks to its unique design. It was given a long, slender nose that accounts for about a third of the total length and breaks up pressure waves that would otherwise merge on other parts of the…

Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

Parasites can reveal a…