Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Single deer may not strike up a conversation to get to know each other as we do, but they’ve found an unusual way to secretly communicate with lovers that, until now, evaded human detection. Deer are famously discreet, relying on scent to…

Some of the faintest sources in James Webb Space Telescope images don’t fit neatly into existing categories. Appearing as compact red points in deep views of the early universe, they show up at very early times and then largely disappear a few…

A remarkably complete fossil from northern Kenya is giving scientists their clearest picture yet of what one of humanity’s earliest ancestors actually looked like.

An international research team has described the oldest and most complete Homo…

Growth rings preserved in fossilized leg bones have been used to estimate how fast Tyrannosaurus rex grew and how old the specimen was when it died. Based on those rings, earlier studies suggested the giant carnivore reached adult size by about…

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the U.S. Department of Energy have…

How does procrastination arise? The reason you decide to postpone household chores and spend your time browsing social media could be explained by the workings of a brain circuit. Recent research has identified a neural connection responsible for…

More than 2,500 years after they were buried, the teeth of Iron Age Italians are still keeping records. Microscopic patterns locked inside dental enamel and plaque reveal when children faced physiological stress, how diets shifted as they grew,…

Microorganisms have evolved together for millennia under Earth’s gravitational conditions, fundamentally shaping their physiology. But what would happen to their dynamics if they lived under space conditions, without gravity laying the…

The last meal eaten by a wolf cub before its demise, some 14,400 years ago, has yielded new insight into how the woolly rhinoceros disappeared from this world.

A previous analysis of the stomach contents of a cub found in the Siberian…