Category: 7. SciTech

One of the world’s rarest whale species, the North Atlantic right whale, is showing an encouraging trend of population growth following renewed…

Scientists have developed the first ever retinal implant capable of restoring sight to people suffering from vision loss, according to a…

Easter Island statues, traditionally known as moai on the remote island of Rapa Nui in the South Pacific, are some of the most impressive artifacts of ancient Polynesian civilization. How the statues were transported has long remained a conundrum, because they can weigh up to several tons yet…

Groundbreaking new research is warning of a worldwide increase in the incidence of obesity-related cancers among younger and older adult…

With their bladed paws, wielded by a rippling mass of pure muscle, sharp eyes, agile reflexes, and crushing fanged jaws, lions are certainly not a predator most animals have any interest in messing with. Especially seeing as they also have the smarts to hunt in packs.

“Lions are the biggest…

The National Transportation Safety Board confirmed Sunday that it is investigating an airliner that was struck by an object in its windscreen, mid-flight, over Utah.

“NTSB gathering radar, weather, flight recorder data,” the federal agency said on the social media site X. “Windscreen being…

You might be surprised to learn that there are more than two types of diabetes. We’re all familiar with types 1 and 2, but you may have seen another one – type 1.5 – making headlines recently.

Type 1.5 diabetes, or latent auto-immune diabetes (LADA) to use its official name, is not a new…

A popular optical illusion can fool some animals, but not others, according to a recent study – and it may shed new light on how perception shaped their survival and evolution.

The optical illusion used in this study is called the Ebbinghaus illusion, where two identical circles appear to be…