Category: 5. Sci-Tech

Key Takeaways on the Ghost Cat

• The ghost cat of Texas is called the Jaguarundi, which is a wildcat that is considered extinct in Texas. Though many people report seeing them, they are often mistaken for house cats or otters.
• Jaguarundi is about…

A brainy human relative who lived during an ice age nearly 150,000 years ago adapted to the bitter cold by developing a sophisticated stone-tool industry, according to a new study of a crystal-studded rib bone found in China.

This surprising…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

For the past few decades, researchers have understood that quantum computers should eventually be able to crack the widely used codes that secure much of the digital world. To protect…

Long before humans smacked “delete” to obliterate typos, we fixed mistakes…

There’s something living in the fog – but you’ll be glad to know that it’s mostly friendly.

Researchers at Arizona State University and Susquehanna University have found that bacteria are living and growing inside droplets of water in fog,…

With an estimated five million species found around the world, according to a study in Scientific Reports, fungi inhabit nearly every corner of the world’s most remote and wild places. Fungi have also developed an impressive arsenal of…

For all humanity’s success as a species at the top of its game, it’s likely that we’ll never finish evolving.

From passive selection pressures to those that are self-inflicted, the forces that shape our ongoing evolutionary journey are as…