Science and Technolgy blog
In polarized political environments, conservatives are more likely than liberals to share misinformation, driven by a heightened desire for their group to achieve dominance, according to new research from the University of California-Irvine. However, in less polarized settings, misinformation-sharing decreases…
Cricket frogs were once thought to hop on the water’s surface. They actually leap in and out of the water in a form of locomotion called porpoising.
A large-scale study has uncovered links between personality traits, birth order, and family size. Published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the research analyzed data from hundreds of thousands of participants and found that individuals from larger…
These mysterious whitish-gray glows in the northern lights might be cousins of the mauve light streak known as STEVE.
If one were to observe that I have written critically about Blue Origin over the last half-decade, they would not be wrong. The reality is that the space company founded by Jeff Bezos has underperformed. Its chief executive for most…
Chimera (noun, “ky-MEER-ah”) A chimera is an individual organism made of cells from two or more organisms. The name chimera comes from Greek mythology. In mythology, the Chimera was a creature with a lion’s head, a goat’s body and a…
Scientists have found a coral that’s so huge it can be seen from space. This coral was discovered in October off the coast of the Solomon Islands. That’s a small nation in the southwest Pacific Ocean. It’s made of six…
The unusual burial of a woman and fetus in prehistoric Ecuador may reflect the community’s fear of her power.
A long roll of cloth embroidered with key scenes from British history is a unique medieval chronicle.
Humans don’t have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?
