Category: 7. SciTech

Thought Category 5 was as bad as a hurricane could get? Think again.

As Hurricane Melissa barrels off into the Atlantic after devastating Jamaica and Cuba, some…

Chimpanzees are capable of making rational decisions, much like humans, and can critically assess the quality of evidence when faced with…

Taking a defensive posture by lying face down when encountering a bear can prevent serious injuries, according to a new Japanese study.

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Why would you want to detect metal? Oh, I don’t know … maybe you want to find some gold in the ground. You could dig up ALL the dirt, or you could find the location that has the gold before you dig. Or maybe you’re looking for buried metallic meteorites. You could even use a metal detector…

Plastic surgeon Dr Michael Longaker was an undergraduate at Michigan State University in 1979.

Now renowned for his work on scarring, back then Longaker’s interests lay more in sports than scientific research – that year he played with basketball superstar Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson on his…

Paranormal phenomena, including supernatural ‘hauntings’, have been the subject of serious scientific investigation since the emergence of spiritualism during Victorian times.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of paranormal investigations have been of the pseudoscientific variety – based on…

Chimpanzees can change their minds when the facts no longer support their previous beliefs – a rational level of thinking that was once considered uniquely human.

In a series of experiments designed to test the metacognition of these fascinating apes, psychologist Hanna Schleihauf of…

New evidence has been discovered to resolve a case of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s that has long puzzled scientists.

The…