Category: 9. Sci/Tech

It’s 5:45 pm, and you’ve just arrived home after a long day at work. You’d like nothing more than a glass of pinot and to binge old episodes of your favorite show. Into the kitchen comes young Sally, your food-adventurous 8-year-old. “I’m…

How does an octopus use its arms? That’s the question a team of researchers set out to investigate. In the process, they discovered something intriguing — octopuses use receptors in their arms to pick up and interpret microbial signals in…

There is a corner of Antarctica that looks like something out of a David Cronenberg movie. It’s located in the dry valleys of McMurdo, an immense frozen desert where, periodically, a jet of crimson liquid suddenly gushes from the dazzling white…

A 40,000-year-old figurine, unearthed in a German cave in 1979, is offering fresh insight…

NEW YORK (AP) – Horses whinny to find new friends, greet old ones, and celebrate happy moments like feeding time.

How exactly horses produce that distinctive sound – also called a neigh – has long eluded scientists.

The whinny is an…

Chinese scientists have developed a new tomato variety with “popcorn-like” aroma using gene…

A rare ant species endemic to Japan has been found to be the only kind that lacks both

Strange symbols carved onto a Stone Age mammoth ivory plate found at a cave in southwest…