Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Lead poisoning has plagued millions of people ever since the world became industrialized, but humans’ troubled relationship with the toxic metal goes back much further in time. Our ancient ancestors also had to deal with lead as they breathed…

Fear is a fundamental emotion embedded early in evolution to guarantee our survival. But besides the ability to experience fear, how we respond to it is just as important.

Now, a research team from the University of Colorado Boulder has discovered…

If you crossed paths with Homo ergaster on an East African plain some 1.5 million to 2 million years ago, its silhouette might look a bit familiar. Long legs, a narrow torso, and a heat-adapted frame that suggests a species built for covering…

In September, Mexican authorities confirmed a case of a deadly flesh-eating parasite in the state of Nuevo León, less than 70 miles (113km) from the Texas border.

The finding, in an eight-month-old cow near the busy Monterrey-to-Laredo highway,…

They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the…

You’ve gone to bed at your usual time, skipped that afternoon coffee, and made…