Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The mountains in northwestern Calabria were once home to a Bronze Age community, and perhaps a startling family secret. An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Harvard Research Center for the Ancient Mediterranean in Germany and…

Even after centuries of scientific exploration, Earth is still full of surprises. Millions of species have been described so far, but thousands more continue to emerge each year, helped along by new tools like DNA sequencing that allow…

Holiday gatherings are a perfect storm of split-second social judgments. Across crowded dinner tables and over clinking glasses, we instinctively scan faces for cues: Who seems warm? Who feels safe to approach? Who can we trust?

According to new…

In 2026, we will see the beginning of precision medical forecasting. Just as there have been remarkable advances in weather forecasting with the use of large language models, so will there be for determining an individual’s risk of the major…

Visitors to the Grand Egyptian Museum are now witnessing the meticulous reassembly of a…

The popular nursery rhyme This Little Piggy is an early childhood memory for many…

Key Takeaways on How the Earth Is Round

• The Earth is round, and we know this from detailed measurements and geometric inferencing based off satellites with lasers.
• Earth is often described as a circle or an oval, but it is neither. As the planet…

A power outage at a key atomic clock facility led to the US official time slowing down by…