Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Past mass extinctions, as devastating as they are, have shaped the vast biodiversity of today’s Earth by reshuffling the evolutionary cards. The Late Ordovician Mass Extinction (LOME), 445 million years ago, was the first of five mass…

Scientists with the ambitious Leonardo da Vinci DNA Project think they have potentially snagged a sample of DNA from the famed artist/inventor himself.

The findings are presented in a preprint, and further tests are needed to confirm whether…

The oldest evidence for the use of arrow poison globally was long thought to come from Egypt,…

Last February, a sick infant named KJ received a gene-editing treatment made just for him. Created in just six months, it was meant to correct a rare genetic mutation that was causing toxic ammonia to build up in his small body. The treatment…

Greenland, the largest island on Earth, possesses some of the

Hedgehogs have been part of human culture for thousands of years. Across different societies,…

Since 2018, a group of researchers from around the world have crunched the numbers on how much heat the world’s oceans are absorbing each year. In 2025, their measurements broke records once again, making this the eighth year in a row that the…

A Polish man suffered total loss of hair and sweating after getting a tattoo, according to a…

Some clever dogs can pick up on the names of hundreds of toys just through natural interactions with their owners.

A team led by cognitive scientist Shany Dror from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary found that so-called Gifted Word…