Category: 9. Sci/Tech

What seems like a simple human gesture may actually carry roots far deeper in our evolutionary past. A new study has uncovered evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and other large apes around 21 million years ago —…

Scientists have successfully sequenced RNA belonging to a 40,000-year-old woolly mammoth. Not only do the findings shed light on one of the most celebrated animals of the Ice Age, but the research, published in Cell, shows it is, in fact,…

Spiders tend to be solitary creatures, so imagine researchers’ surprise when they found more than 100,000 arachnids sharing what is thought to be the largest web on record.

The web is a jaw-dropping 1,140 square feet (106 square meters) and is…

I live with several cocker spaniels. They are smart and affectionate, but sometimes air-headed, impulsive and extremely sensitive. It’s common for friends to describe my dogs as “having ADHD” as one of my canine whirlwinds whizz past.

People…

It’s the kind of “scale shock” that isn’t all that shocking. For those of…

Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa’s Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest chemical evidence yet of life on Earth.

According to a new analysis using machine learning, fragmentary traces of carbon…