Each night when darkness falls, huge swarms of dashing male sea creatures called comma shrimp swim up from the depths of the ocean, looking for love. It’s a tried-and-true romantic strategy — one the males have been using since dinosaurs roamed the land, recently discovered fossils show. And while many animal lineages have gone through big evolutionary makeovers in […]
Call it co-working, Japan style. People on the go will soon be able to find a quiet place to sit down and tap away on a laptop, thanks to phonebooth-sized offices that will be popping up at train stations, airports and skyscraper lobbies. An enclosure of just 13 sq. ft., the soundproof Telecube will have […]
A bathroom remodel includes more details to consider than your average home renovation. Bathrooms are susceptible to things like water damage, mould, mildew and slick surfaces. Consider this list of the best and worst materials for your bathroom remodel to help you make the right choices. Decorative porcelain wall tiles are a good choice for […]
In 2017, Bigre won the Molière Award — France’s national theatre prize — for Best Comedy. Billed as a “burlesque melodrama,” it’s widely agreed to be very funny and to clearly communicate its French origins. And yet there’s not a word of French — nor indeed any language — spoken in it. So how does […]
A newborn’s first few days of life are fragile and potentially dangerous, navigating a world full of viruses, infections and bacteria. Many around the world don’t survive. While doctors and researchers have traditionally had few clues about what is happening to a newborn during this critical time, a new international study involving the University of British Columbia (UBC) may […]
Lots of people are unhappy with the city’s snow-clearing efforts, but residents of Archer St. are at the top of the list. Fernanda Yanchapaxi, who lives on the tiny street — less than 100 metres long — says it has been plowed only once this winter, leaving it coated with hard-packed snow and ice that […]
It may be a faint, fuzzy dot, but a little moon has now become an official addition to Neptune’s family. In a paper published in Nature Astronomy today, astronomers announced their first observations of a tiny moon discovered around Neptune in 2013. This brought Neptune’s total moon count up to 14. Until earlier this month, the moon […]
The NASA spacecraft that yielded the first close-up views of Pluto opened the new year at an even more distant world. Flight controllers said everything looked good for New Horizons’ flyby of the tiny, icy object at 12:33 a.m. ET Tuesday. Confirmation was not expected for hours, though, given the vast distance. The mysterious, ancient […]
A German-French observation device safely landed on an asteroid on Wednesday after a Japanese spacecraft released it as part of a research effort that could find clues about the origin of the solar system, Japanese space officials said. The Japan Space Exploration Agency said the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, or MASCOT, was released from the […]
People in Lithuania sensed immediately that something big had happened, even if they did not quite know who the boys were. This is a basketball-mad country, and the eyes of the sport had suddenly turned its way. Over the next few days, Lithuanians learned the basic facts: LiAngelo, 19, and LaMelo, 16, are the younger […]