Category: 7. SciTech

Many people dream of starting their own business but wonder if they have what it takes. According to new research, you can find…

I don’t know who invented this crazy challenge, but the idea is to put someone in a carved-out ice bowl and see if they can get out. Check it out! The bowl is shaped like the inside of a sphere, so the higher up the sides you go, the steeper it gets. If you think an icy sidewalk is slippery, try…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Scientists on a research vessel off the central California coast spotted a waved albatross, marking just the second recorded sighting of the bird north of Central America.

The yellow-billed bird with black button eyes, which can have an 8-foot (2.4-meter) wingspan and…

Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

Parasites can reveal a lot about an ecosystem, since they tend to get up…

Scientists in Japan have discovered a previously unknown giant virus, offering new insight into this enigmatic category of viruses – and possibly also into the origins of multicellular life.

The virus was found infecting an amoeba in a freshwater pond near Tokyo, the researchers report….

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 of almost all vertebrates, the oxygen required to…