Category: 9. Sci/Tech

This year’s Wolf supermoon has appeared in UK skies that were clear for most of the…

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) has hailed the discovery of seven rare species across…

How humans deal with death and the rituals we build around it are a crucial part of our identity. Burial practices may stretch back hundreds of thousands of years, emerging soon after our ancestors left the trees. Cremation, however, is a…

If you have a receipt in your wallet right now, you’re carrying more than proof of purchase. Thermal paper — the heat-sensitive material used in receipts, tickets, and shipping labels — is coated with chemicals known to interfere with…

Each day, coral reefs quietly reshape the microscopic world drifting just above them. As daylight fades and returns, the smallest ocean organisms — bacteria, algae, and single-celled predators — appear and disappear in a steady cycle that…

How one of the oldest candidates for a human ancestor moved through its environment has remained an open question. A seven-million-year-old fossil from central Africa has been interpreted either as an early upright walker — or as an ape that…

A controversial hominid that lived 7 million years ago may have walked on two legs after all, according to a new analysis of its fossilized bones.

After its discovery in 2001, Sahelanthropus tchadensis (nicknamed Toumai) was considered one of…

Skygazers have been advised to “wrap up warm” to view this year’s Wolf Moon.

Clear skies…

Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut…