Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Scientists have discovered that an imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain could help explain why teenage girls are at greater risk of depression than boys.

Specifically, researchers claimed to have identified the role of a chemical called…

Archaeologists have identified what caused unusual red dye marks on the remains of a young…

Not all ideas can be hits. Alongside ground-breaking innovations, 21st-century scientists have helmed their share of wild tech flops, dubious theories and overhyped breakthroughs. Here are the biggest to forget.

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Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first time. The gas has been observed directly by the James Webb Space Telescope on four exoplanets, all belonging to the HR 8799 system, located 130 light-years from…

A remarkable Iron Age hoard, unearthed in a Yorkshire field, is prompting archaeologists to…

Endometrial cancer is one of the most common cancers in Australian women—and one of the hardest to catch. But a new breakthrough in AI cancer detection is pushing accuracy levels to an unprecedented 99 percent, giving doctors a major…

Shortages of GLP-1 medications, like Ozempic and Wegovy, are common occurrences. These shortages will likely continue into the future and will make it hard for patients dealing with Type 2 diabetes and obesity to receive consistent treatment.

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Thanks to an innovative “depot” injection approach from a team at MIT, long-lasting shots could become a lot less painful. Involving the injection of tiny, drug-delivering crystals suspended within a solvent, the team’s method could deliver…

As concerns over Earth’s limited resources continue to grow, some entrepreneurs are eagerly looking beyond our planet to establish the next big business venture: asteroid mining. The prospect of setting up mining operations in space holds the…

Before his discovery of King Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922, it’s rumored that Howard Cater, the renowned Egyptologist, discovered another mummy in 1919. Known as either the Bashiri Mummy, the Mummy of Pacheri, or the “untouchable one,” this…