Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The thymus is one of those organs that doesn’t have a lot of name recognition, but it plays a critical role in making sure our immune system stays up to snuff. But just like all organs, the thymus — which is located in the upper chest —…

In the early Cretaceous, a palm-sized bird made a fatal mistake. Its fossil shows a tight mass of tiny stones jammed in its throat — a snapshot of a creature caught in its final moments. The cluster includes more than 800 rocks, far more than…

When a body is discovered, one of the first clues investigators turn to isn’t a fingerprint or a witness — it’s a maggot. These are the larvae of blow flies, the insects most commonly used to estimate time since death because they develop…

The origins of complex, nucleated cellular life – everything from amoebas to humans – may date back a lot further in Earth’s history than we thought.

A new study tracing the earliest steps toward complex life suggests that this…

Dust devils often pop up here on Earth when a column of wind whips up debris in deserts, but this frenzied weather spectacle also happens on Mars too. Although Martian dust devils may look somewhat similar to those on Earth, they’re much larger…

A prehistoric bird that lived and died 120 million years ago has presented forensic paleontologists with a baffling medical mystery.

Somehow, it managed to die with more than 800 tiny pebbles in its throat – a situation that researchers…

Most people are made up of between 1 and 4 percent Neanderthal DNA, depending on what part of the world you call home, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

For those who live in Africa or are of African descent, their percentage…

Instead of stopping to smell the flowers, scientists suggest stopping to smell your farts….

When people use hand gestures that visually represent what they’re saying, listeners see them as more clear, competent and persuasive.

That’s the key finding from my new research published in the Journal of Marketing Research, where I analyzed…