Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A powerful geomagnetic storm aimed at Earth could disrupt technology and bring a stunning…

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for…

Dean Cliver, an expert in food microbiology at the University of California Davis, was the OG of cutting-board research. In the early 1990s, Cliver, who died in 2011, and his colleagues set out to discover how home cooks could clean their wooden…

A piece of parchment wrapped around a 16th century volume of property records has turned out to be a treasure beyond archivists’ wildest dreams.

Folded, stitched, torn, and worn, the hand-written manuscript is a fragment of the Suite Vulgate…

Scientists have discovered two new feathered dinosaur species in northeastern China hidden in…

Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina…

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the man of death. Although this does not sound like a good moniker, it is: Ramakrishnan is one of the world’s most eminent scientists in the fields of structural biology and cellular processes related to aging and…

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

Although the Leonids produce fewer meteors than many other of the major meteor showers, they are known for producing fast-moving, bright, fireball meteors.

The Leonids peak just before the new moon—on the morning of November 18, the moon will be…