Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Solar eclipses have been shown to confuse animals and disrupt their typical routines, but how do trees respond to this phenomenon? A Royal Society Open Science study published in April 2025 asserted that trees can anticipate a solar eclipse…

In a British propaganda poster from World War II, an illustration in shadowy…

By modern standards, the diets of some ancient civilizations may seem downright bizarre. Think fermented fish left in open-air vats for months, insects roasted whole, or pork-stuffed rodents presented in an earthen casserole. To ancient eaters,…

The Artemis program’s first crewed trip to the moon may be slightly delayed, but the crew is still deep in prep mode. While most of the attention at NASA is focused on prelaunch preparations of the Orion spacecraft and its SLS rocket, the four…

A hill on the west Cumbrian coast could be the long-sought burial mound of Ivarr the…

Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the US Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump administration’s new immigration detention operation at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. This…

In 2021, famed Russian figure skating coach Alexei Mishin said that no figure skater would ever be able to successfully perform a quad axel in his lifetime. The following year, two-time Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu was training to master…

Human-made ivory and stone tools have been found in a 14,000-year-old layer of Alaskan earth, providing evidence of some of the first people to inhabit the Americas.

The tools resemble those made by people of the Clovis culture, which is…

Scientists have developed new methods to recreate perfumes used during the ancient Egyptian…