Category: 7. SciTech

Sylvie Andrews and her partner didn’t just lose the new house they’d helped build when the Eaton Fire ripped through Altadena, California, in January 2025. They lost an entire decade’s worth of sacrifices they’d made to put down roots in their hometown, and the community they’d…

Nature has imbued its mothers with many surprisingly strange ways to reproduce and care for their babies.

Some moms, like crocodiles and sharks, can skip the whole sex thing, using an adaptation that can be traced back to dinosaurs to clone themselves and deliver a ‘virgin birth.’

Scorpion…

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid found in abundance in oily fish such as mackerel and sardines, is thought to improve cognitive function by supporting connections between brain cells. However, it has never been conclusively demonstrated that DHA taken as a dietary supplement…

Beneath the Earth’s surface lies an extraordinary underground fungal network of almost unimaginable scale. An international team of researchers has, for the first time, produced a global map of this vast mycorrhizal network—the system of fungal filaments that forms mutually beneficial…