Category: 9. Sci/Tech

It’s one hell of an old ant. Researchers discovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant preserved in a chunk of Brazilian limestone. The find earned it the title of the oldest such specimen, according to a paper in the journal Current Biology.

The…

A new male contraception has been shown in trials to last for at least two years, in a…

We all need a way to get along in this wild, wicked world, and a rare insect found only on a mountainside on O’ahu has found an incredible strategy.

A species of caterpillar that scientists are calling the ‘bone collector’ is not only a…

A newly discovered species of caterpillar has been found creeping through spider webs on the Hawaiian island of O‘ahu – and it’s unlike anything scientists have seen before.

Not only does it live in an eerily precarious environment,…

With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowing to reexamine the childhood vaccination schedule, measles and other previously eliminated…

Plastic is one of humanity’s most useful inventions… and one of its most persistent problems. Plastic has become so ingrained in modern life that it’s easy to forget how long it lingers once tossed away. The truth is that…

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

The tiny insect, fossilized in a chunk of limestone in Brazil, is the oldest known ant specimen ever identified. Even…

In 2018, a study made headlines when it found that a captive orca, or killer whale, was able to imitate human speech. The whale, called Wikie, lived at the Marineland Aquarium in Antibes, France. Wikie was trained to produce the words “Ah ah,”…

Giant icebergs the size of Norwich were drifting off the coast of Britain during the last ice…

A Roman gladiator’s skeleton has provided the first piece of physical evidence of combat…