Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Just a stone’s throw from the centre of Tikal – the vast Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala – archaeologists have unearthed a chilling new clue to one of the most turbulent periods in ancient Mesoamerican history. 

At the heart…

Scientists have recreated the brain circuit responsible for transmitting feelings of pain for…

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.

Looking closely at…

The drug is based on research conducted at MIT by Giovanni Traverso, a gastroenterologist and mechanical engineer, and Robert Langer, a chemical engineer who has launched more than two dozen biotech companies.

The two discovered the mechanism when…

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

Scientists have constructed the most extensive functional brain map to date, charting the…

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

It is caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus…

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia’s far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.

But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago.

What if the key to sharper focus and a younger brain wasn’t a supplement or app—but turning off your mobile internet? A new study from the University of British Columbia suggests that ditching phone internet access, even…