Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Most brown bears may look like carbon copies of each other, but they all have their own little differences in appearance and behavior. Still, telling individual bears apart can be a real challenge that requires a trained eye and years of close…

At the edge of a lake in what is now southern Greece, early humans once butchered elephants while large carnivores circled nearby. Buried in the lakebed mud, alongside stone tools and animal remains, were fragments of worked wood that survived…

Here’s some science trivia for you: unlike the inner retina in most animals (including us), birds’ inner retinas function without oxygen. And now, researchers led by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark have figured out how.

In the retinas…

Beneath the rolling surface of the North Atlantic lies a geological structure so vast it rivals the Grand Canyon. Known as the King’s Trough Complex, this enormous system of deep trenches stretches roughly 300 miles across the ocean floor and…

Sauropods, the long-neck dinosaurs that towered over the Jurassic landscape, grew up next to lots of hungry neighbors. These herbivores were vulnerable hatchlings, and according to a new study, they may have helped sustain entire predator…

It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult Brachiosaurus, a…

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of mental health, drug science, and Silicon Valley biohacking: microdosing, or the practice of taking a small amount of a psychedelic drug…

Southern Africa is world-renowned for its fossil record of creatures that lived in the very…