Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Many people dream of starting their own business but wonder if they have what it…

I don’t know who invented this crazy challenge, but the idea is to put someone in a carved-out ice bowl and see if they can get out. Check it out! The bowl is shaped like the inside of a sphere, so the higher up the sides you go, the steeper it…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America.

The yellow-billed bird with black button eyes,…

Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

Parasites can reveal a…

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of viruses – and possibly also into the origins of multicellular life.

The virus was found infecting an amoeba in a…

As much as it might seem that diseases like COVID-19 appear from nowhere, most illnesses that affect humans have been cooking for a very long time. They have infected and sometimes killed animal species for thousands, if not millions, of years as…

Asteroid 2024 YR4 no longer threatens Earth. Instead, updated calculations show about a 4.3 percent chance that the 60-meter-wide rock could strike the Moon on Dec. 22, 2032, at a velocity of about 14 kilometers per second. The impact would…

Although wildfires are a natural and recurring phenomenon in certain regions, climate change is intensifying their impact. Each year, fires now swallow around four percent of Earth’s land surface, leaving behind vast, unrecognizable charred…