Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A new study has found that people are more likely to act kind towards others when Batman is present – and not for the reasons you might assume.

It may sound like a full-throated attempt to score an Ig Nobel Prize, but the study is actually…

Does my internet speed affect my health? There’s no direct connection between receiving data quickly on our devices and our health. Bytes don’t have any calories, nor do they spread diseases.

However, research shows that longer screen time…

Thousands of years ago, prehistoric human societies traded the rare green mineral variscite. People across Western Europe between the sixth and second millennium B.C. valued the mineral’s distinctive turquoise hue and incorporated it into…

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises the…

Have you ever wondered why you have to get a flu shot every year, but some vaccines are one-and-done? It all has to do with how and how fast viruses evolve — and that depends on mutation rates.

Viruses are tiny microbes, even smaller than…

Easter Island’s Rapa Nui statues were carved by several independent groups, including…

You could be at risk of a genetic condition that causes high cholesterol and not even know it, warns a new study. Familial hypercholesterolemia, it says, can go unnoticed for several generations – putting the people who have it at a dangerously…

A single stressful life event may be enough to lead to recurrent hair loss, a new study…