Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Twice a year, millions of people reset their clocks by an hour and complain about it. But according to a new analysis of social media posts, people appear to react much more negatively to one of those shifts than the other. The fall switch back…

Lab-grown brain organoids have been called “mini-brains” by some of their more enthusiastic proponents, but the reality is that these clumps of neural cells are some ways from replicating the performance of the human brain. Instead, they act…

Around 3000 years ago, during the late Bronze Age, a new burial tradition emerged. Families began to cremate their deceased relatives, before placing their ashes into urns, which were then buried in fields. This period would come to be known as…

Few early human fossils are as remarkable as Little Foot, a 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus skeleton discovered in South Africa’s Sterkfontein Caves — known as the most complete early hominin skeleton ever found. Now, researchers have…

We’ve all seen the photos: a celebrity gives birth on Tuesday and looks…

Scientists have reconstructed the face of one of the most famous hominin fossils.

Affectionately known as ‘Little Foot’, the 3.67-million-year-old Australopithecus specimen is strikingly complete, despite the skull being crushed and deformed…

Millennia-old pottery remains from across Europe reveal that ancient communities in the…

Pre-workout gym supplements may be linked to severely reduced sleep in teenagers and young…

Just like in the modern world, people in ancient times wanted to know how to live a long and healthy life.

Greeks and Romans heard fantastic tales of faraway peoples living well beyond 100.

Greek essayist Lucian (about 120–180 CE)

Coastal sea levels are already up to a foot higher than many scientists believe, according to an alarming new