Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In the 1950s, an American anthropologist, Ralph Solecki, discovered the remains of 10 Neanderthals in a cave in Iraqi Kurdistan.  

Solecki thought that some of these cave burials were accidental, and it appeared that some had died from falling…

Scientists at ETH Zurich have developed a new kind of material that doesn’t just sit there. It actually lives, grows, and pulls carbon dioxide straight from the air. This living material was designed in collaboration across biology,…

A London-based dentist has uncovered a hidden detail in Leonardo da Vinci’s famous…

Scientists have identified specific brain cells which respond most to exercise, an advance…

Before the rise of the Incas, a civilization known as Tiwakanu ruled the Andes, and archaeologists have uncovered a massive temple left behind by this enigmatic society.

Named Palaspata by local Indigenous farmers, the ruined temple is perched…

Archaeologists have reconstructed the face of a Stone Age Belgian woman and found that she…

Which animal has the sharpest teeth? Shout out to the extinct ‘chainsaw shark’ (Helicoprion) which receives an honourable mention, because it had, what looks like a circular saw jutting out from its bottom jaw.

Terrifying? Yes, but its gnashers…

We know that the world and its various inhabitants, from plants to animals, are still evolving. In fact, some even believe that humans are actively evolving in different parts of the world right now. But a group of plants found in the…

Over the last decade, Earth’s oceans have been warming at unprecedented rates, yet one mysterious blob of water, just south of Greenland, has defied this trend. It has stubbornly remained colder than its surrounding waters for over a century…

We’ve long known that some animals depend on the Sun to navigate the world. However, new research may have uncovered the first insect we know of that does the same using the stars and night sky. The stars have long been a navigational…