Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to…

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named Ea-nāṣir, that he decided to write a formal complaint. Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is the oldest customer…

A new study suggests a surprising and potentially game-changing approach to stopping malaria that involves turning human blood into a death sentence for mosquitos. The secret lies in an existing drug called nitisinone, which, once…

At the bottom of the Baltic Sea, buried beneath layers of sediment and sealed off from light and oxygen, ancient phytoplankton have been lying dormant for thousands of years. Now, researchers have revived some of these organisms, making…

Have you ever been sure someone was lying to you? You may have been picking up on subconscious clues from their body language using lessons learned from social media.

It’s easy to find an authority on anything online, but among the many…

Scientists have developed a 3D-printed imitation of human skin with living cells, an advance…

Archaeologists digging under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have found signs…

Microplastics are everywhere. They’ve been found in our brains, algae in the Arctic ice, human placentas, beer, and breast milk—but now, according to one luxury clinic in London, they can be filtered out of your blood with a handy…

If you’ve ever unloaded a dishwasher and found everything sparkling dry, except for that one plastic container still clinging to a puddle of water, well, you’re not alone. It’s one of those everyday mysteries that feels like it…

Scent is how dogs largely experience the world, a lot like the way we humans rely on sight. We know little about how dogs interpret scent, but thanks to a recent study, we may be getting closer to understanding what a dog’s nose actually…