Category: 7. SciTech

The special brains of spiders may have started to evolve in the oceans, long before their ancestors crawled onto land.

A fresh look at a 500-million-year-old fossil by researchers from the University of Arizona and Lycoming College in the US and King’s College London has revealed remarkable…

An Australian lizard in the same genus as the komodo dragon has been found harboring secret bone chainmail under their scaly skin.

Goannas – a name that encompasses several Australian species – are not the only monitor lizards with this fascinating adaptation, either. A wild new study has…

A team of astronomers have discovered a curious figure in the universe. It is two distant galaxies colliding with each other to form a larger structure. From Earth’s perspective, the junction of the disks resembles the number eight lying down, similar to the infinity symbol (∞).

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Patients put on weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may start regaining weight within weeks of discontinuing them, a new study finds.

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Several EPA scientists stressed to WIRED that ORD’s current structure, which allows research to happen independent of the policy-making that occurs in other parts of the agency, is crucial to producing quality work. One told WIRED that they worked in a scientific role in an EPA policy office…