Category: 9. Sci/Tech

It’s a lesson that many language learners have learned the hard way: While the words of a familiar language are distinct, the words of an unfamiliar one are often tricky to tease apart, blurring together as a single sound. But why does the…

More than 50,000 years ago, life was not going well for the Neanderthal who later became known in the scientific community as “Chagyrskaya D.” He was living with relatives, including his adolescent daughter, in a cave in the Altai Mountains…

A remarkably well-preserved Roman sarcophagus has been unearthed in Hungary’s capital,…

Scientists have discovered a whole new type of roar produced by African lions, indicating the…

While animal mothers are known to sometimes dispatch of their young, very few animals will kill their own mother: the care she gives is just too valuable. But it turns out some ants can be tricked into matricide, killing their own queen, and…

When a wild wolf encounters a potential meal, its instinct is usually to pounce – but researchers in western Canada have recorded at least one wolf taking a strikingly different approach.

The behavior captured on video in a remote part of…

A 70-year-old medical mystery around a critical blood-pressure medication, hydralazine, was finally solved. Not only do scientists now understand how it works on a molecular level — which offers important clues to help improve the drug…