Category: 9. Sci/Tech

If you’re scouting the southern wetlands of the U.K. or roaming marshy habitats in eastern Asia, you might be lucky and come across a rather odd-looking deer, looking all plush and cute until it flashes its scary-looking set of vampire-like…

In 2019, the Weddell Sea Expedition set off to find Sir Ernest Shackleton’s missing ship, the Endurance. While braving the treacherous, icy waters of the Antarctic sea, the team was unable to locate the Endurance but instead found something…

Have a long flight coming up? Or a long shift where you’re on your feet all day? Maybe you’re training for a 5k or a marathon. Either way, you may benefit from using compression socks.

While compression socks are often used by patients with…

After a sleepless night, those foggy, drifting moments may be more than fatigue — researchers at MIT say your brain might be cleaning itself mid-day. Their study, published this week in Nature Neuroscience, reveals that brief lapses in…

On 24 February 1997, Jerry Linenger and his five crewmates faced a danger they hoped they’d never meet: a fire aboard their space station, which, at present, was hundreds of kilometres above the surface of Earth.

The blaze began shortly after…

Collected from the Colombian Amazon, they had been without food for several days in captivity and then were presented with extremely unappetizing prey: three-striped poison dart frogs, Ameerega…