Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Strange “hairy” covers of books in medieval Europe were made from seal skin obtained from…

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA…

Social media accounts of pets showcasing products could have an edge over their human…

A full-sized digital scan of the Titanic has revealed further insight into the doomed…

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet’s earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth’s very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to the shell of solid rock in place today.

It…

A new thought-reading brain implant is giving people who can’t speak a chance to communicate again. Developed by researchers at UC Berkeley, this experimental technology can convert neural activity into spoken words with a delay of…

The pursuit of de-extinction has broken new ground yet again, as three young wolves are carrying on the legacy of the dire wolf species that disappeared from Earth around 12,500 years ago. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences, the company leading…

A buried ancient altar at the center of the Maya city of Tikal points to the tensions between the Maya and their neighbors in the late 300s C.E. According to a new study in Antiquity, the altar wasn’t made by artisans trained in Tikal. Instead,…

More than 60 million people globally suffer from heart failure – a condition where the heart is unable to pump blood around the body properly, usually because the heart has become weak or stiff. 

Coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and…

Dinosaurs were living their best life, so legend goes, until the unwelcome arrival of a killer asteroid — Chicxulub — triggered an extinction-level event 66 million years ago. That was until more recent research suggested dinosaurs were…