Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In 1871, a farmer dumped five cattle on a small, inhospitable island in the middle of the southern Indian Ocean. Against all odds, this tiny herd not only survived but also flourished, adapting to its harsh new home and multiplying, reaching a…

A 307-million-year-old football-sized creature may be one of the earliest land vertebrates to have eaten plants. While plant-eating animals are overly abundant today, that wasn’t the case millions of years ago. As land vertebrates began to…

Each time your fingers curl around an object, you are using a structure shaped over hundreds of millions of years. Human hands, like all vertebrate limbs, have a clear top and bottom: a palm, its ventral side, specialized for grasping and touch,…

In the evacuation zone in Fukushima, implemented after the nuclear accident in 2011, numerous animals have thrived in the absence of human activity. Even previously domesticated breeds have found a home there, and some are now undergoing…

In figure skating, the quadruple axel is generally considered the most difficult jump. Until 2022, when US skater Ilia Malinin—currently riding high as the “Quad God” at the 2026 Winter Olympics—started doing them, they seemed impossible….

A 30-second Super Bowl ad featuring boxing legend Mike Tyson and paid for by the nonprofit MAHA Center encourages viewers to avoid processed foods and visit realfood.gov. The government website, which Health and Human Services secretary Robert F….

Sometimes a fever doesn’t just make you hot — it makes everything else feel cold. A room that felt comfortable an hour ago now seems drafty, pushing you to bundle up or scoot closer to the heater. That wave of chills has long been treated as…

From the outside, Earth doesn’t seem to have a lot going on in the hydrogen department… but that doesn’t mean it’s completely lacking in the most abundant element in the Universe. Bound to oxygen, it sits in plain sight as water.

Yet…