Category: 9. Sci/Tech

You may have heard that cats meow only for their humans. But is this true? While acknowledging that there are groups of experts who support the idea, Carly Moody, animal science researcher at the University of California Davis, says, “We just…

Just over half a billion years ago, Earth was rocked by a global mass extinction event, a dramatic interruption of the Cambrian explosion of life on Earth.

What happened next, in the direct aftermath of this event, has mostly been a mystery…

Cold spray whipped off the ropes as a diesel engine throbbed in the background. One by one, empty shellfish pots came over the side of the fishing boat, occasionally containing the remnants of crab and lobster claws and carapaces.

Something…

After nearly two decades, the baby whale came back—as a mother, with a baby of its own. Julie Albert, director of the Right Whale Sighting Network at Blue World Research Institute, a nonprofit, first laid eyes on the North Atlantic right whale…

Complex prehistoric tools unearthed at an archaeological site in central China are upending…

The apocalypse is closer than it ever has been, according to the experts behind the

Dedicated volunteers have safely guided more than two million toads across

At a site overlooking the Danjiangkou Reservoir in central China, archaeologists uncovered stone tools so small and finely worked that they’d be easy to overlook. Closer inspection showed that some of the tools had once been attached to…

Instead of heading straight back to the bottle after the end of Dry January, some people are looking for an alternative that doesn’t require cutting out the “fun” altogether. Alcohol’s risks are well documented, from physical diseases to…