Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The Milky Way may have a twin. The discovery of the most distant spiral galaxy to date may change the way we think about both the speed and process in which such systems are birthed, an international team led by the University of Geneva (UNIGE)…

Sometimes a big medical problem requires a massive research effort. Scientists have done just that for osteoarthritis, a condition that could affect a billion people globally by 2050.

Their enormous effort could help identify existing drugs…

The use of e-cigarettes, also known as vaping, has only continued to increase in popularity over the years. In the U.S., e-cigarettes are the second-most common form of tobacco use. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Researchers say they are one step closer to finding out if life ever existed on Mars.

An…

Just because Homo sapiens hadn’t yet developed the SPF rating system 41,000 years ago didn’t mean that they were unaware that solar radiation could prove hazardous.

H. sapiens applied some form of sunscreen, shielded themselves from UV rays…

Sunscreen may have been essential to the survival of prehistoric humans at a time when Neanderthals were dying out, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan.

European Homo sapiens may have protected themselves from…

Crocodiles are persistent — not just in their deadly pursuit of prey, but in terms of their existence. The contemporary species hails from a 230-million-year lineage that has survived two mass extinction events.

A study in the journal Continue Reading

Walking briskly, and for longer periods of time, could help protect you against heart rhythm abnormalities, and in turn protect you from heart attack, heart disease and stroke.

That’s according to a recent study published in Heart, a title…

Scientists have used artificial ‘earthquakes’ to uncover new details about magma lurking a few thousand metres below Yellowstone, one of the world’s most closely monitored supervolcanoes.

In the new study, researchers from the University of…

The Dolní Vestonice Portrait Head is just 2 inches tall and 1 inch wide. It’s a tiny face carved into an ivory mammoth tusk, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in significance. Uncovered in the 1920s in the South Moravian region of the…