Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Sunscreen may have been essential to the survival of prehistoric humans at a time when Neanderthals were dying out, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of Michigan.

European Homo sapiens may have protected themselves from…

Crocodiles are persistent — not just in their deadly pursuit of prey, but in terms of their existence. The contemporary species hails from a 230-million-year lineage that has survived two mass extinction events.

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Walking briskly, and for longer periods of time, could help protect you against heart rhythm abnormalities, and in turn protect you from heart attack, heart disease and stroke.

That’s according to a recent study published in Heart, a title…

Scientists have used artificial ‘earthquakes’ to uncover new details about magma lurking a few thousand metres below Yellowstone, one of the world’s most closely monitored supervolcanoes.

In the new study, researchers from the University of…

The Dolní Vestonice Portrait Head is just 2 inches tall and 1 inch wide. It’s a tiny face carved into an ivory mammoth tusk, but what it lacks in size, it makes up for in significance. Uncovered in the 1920s in the South Moravian region of the…

Bowling’s elusive perfect strike may no longer be a matter of intuition and experience.

A…

Scientists have raised concerns about the lack of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils for their…

It’s often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more remote the possibility of inhabiting them seems. Mars, for example, is the closest celestial body to Earth in terms of distance, but data shows its conditions…

Nearly a century after its initial discovery, scientists have captured footage of the

Cats became human companions for the first time likely following mass cult ritual sacrifices…