Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A prehistoric human skeleton has been unearthed within an intricate underwater cave system…

When a child is born, their brain is only a fraction of the size that it will one day grow to be. As many caretakers will recall, an infant’s skull is flexible and made of bone and fibrous material called sutures — colloquially known as soft…

“This is just not the right pathway forward,” Isaacman said.

A senior NASA official, speaking on background to Ars, noted that the space agency has experienced hydrogen and helium leaks during both the Artemis I and Artemis II prelaunch…

What people eat can reveal far more than what they prefer to have on the menu. New research tracing the diets of prehistoric communities in north-central Poland shows how food choices reflected adaptation, migration, and even early social…

You drop something behind the couch. Your dog perks up, watching your hands, maybe even nudging at the cushions as if ready to help. Your cat, on the other hand, might watch quietly or wander off entirely.

That contrast may not just be a matter of…

The brown recluse has a reputation that travels faster than the spider itself. In Florida, it’s often blamed for mysterious wounds, late-night bites, and household infestations.

But a statewide survey published in the Journal of Medical…

Although comet 3I/ATLAS has come and gone, it will remain an influential research subject for the foreseeable future. As the interstellar comet passed the sun and Earth in late 2025, several spacecraft studied its behavior and composition. Since…

When there’s a will, there’s a way. And for Zelia Nuttall, a lack of a college education and a professorship were not going to stand in the way of what she wanted.

As a single mother in the late 1800s, Nuttall would work tirelessly to fund…