Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Key Takeaways About the World’s Deadliest Mushroom:

• Death cap mushrooms are considered the deadliest in the world. They make up about 90 percent of mushroom poisoning deaths each year.

• Consuming any part of the death cap mushroom, including the…

We’re already familiar with the ways to artificially restore our bodies to their natural peak. Wearing prescription glasses can correct your vision, and hearing aids can mitigate against hearing loss.

Now, new tech is on the way to enhance the…

Since Donald Trump re-entered the White House in January 2025, his administration has made sweeping funding cuts across dozens of federal agencies. NASA is no exception – with the 2026 budget set to reduce the agency’s funding by up to 24.3…

A tiny, reptilian fossil has been excavated from layers of ancient sandstone, where it was preserved for over 240 million years – predating the dinosaurs.

The little lizard-like creature pinches the record for the oldest known lepidosaur….

On a North Sea oil rig several years ago, an engineer noticed a strange phenomenon. A cloud…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot earlier this year called R1, which drew a huge amount of attention. Most of it focused on the fact that a relatively small and…

For one thing, the systems he imagines process data relatively slowly compared to those on terra firma. They’d be constantly bombarded by radiation, and “obsolescence would be a problem” because making repairs or upgrades would be…

Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And can painting cows with zebra stripes help repel biting flies? These and other unusual research questions were honored tonight in a…