Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes pink. The male leopard seal wakes and slips from the ice into the water. There, he’ll spend the night singing underwater amongst the floating ice floes.

For the next two months he sings every…

The Tintina fault stretches 1,000 kilometers (621 miles) across northern Canada, crossing the Yukon and ending in Alaska. The fault is thought to have been dormant for 40 million years, but that thinking is challenged by a new study that…

You say potato, I say tomato?

Turns out one helped create the other: Natural interbreeding between wild tomatoes and potato-like plants in South America gave rise to the modern day spud around nine million years ago, according to a new study…

In November 2020, a freak wave appeared, lifting a lone buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters (58 feet) high.

A few years later, the four-story wall of water was confirmed to be the most extreme rogue wave ever recorded.

Such an…

Americans love potatoes. And while we love our tater tots, our hash browns, and not-so-French…

Hibernation might sound like an extreme way of life: Animals gain a lot of weight quickly, then drastically slow their metabolism to survive off stored energy through long, cold months.

But for all its intensity, hibernation is surprisingly…

Millions of years ago, our ancient ancestors transitioned from the forests to the grasslands of Africa, where their need for new food sources led to their consumption of grasses.

But recent research suggests that the hominins learned to love…

The Universe is chock-full of oddities: stars that blink in and out without explanation, galaxies that eat one another, black holes gone rogue. It’s no surprise that among the billions of galaxies out there in the cosmos, some of them are going…

Sharks with frickin’ lasers are tired news. Peacocks, apparently, are where it’s truly at.

Famous for their dazzling iridescence, peacock feathers are known to contain nanostructures that scatter light in ways that make their plumage shimmer…

When I started studying honeybees in 1998, I quickly noticed just how much people loved them. I also realised that people’s knowledge rarely extended beyond “bees make honey” and “they live in hives”.

Sometimes there would be mention…