Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In moments of intense pressure, the mind can feel like it’s spinning. Too many decisions, too little time, and too much to lose. But when your job is navigating life-or-death situations in foreign countries, you need a mental…

Sometimes, science moves forward with a spark of genius. Other times, it happens by accident—like when a graduate student shook a vial of liquid and ended up discovering a material that seems to rewrite the rules of nature. That’s…

The crisis of fentanyl and other opioids is far from over in the U.S., and a new study stresses that point, finding that the illicit use of these substances is much more prevalent than prior studies suggest. Published today in JAMA Health Forum,…

Here’s a question you probably shouldn’t ponder while eating: what animal has the fastest pee on Earth? Elephants? Lions? Horses?

One surprising contender, according to a study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:…

Women always seem to get drunk faster than men for some reason. But what if that weren’t just a stereotype? What if the difference were real, measurable, and rooted in basic biology?

As it turns out, the idea holds up under scientific…

Recently discovered stone tools and circular structures on the Isle of Skye suggest humans from the Old Stone Age traveled all the way to the frigid northwest edge of Scotland.

This boundary-pushing endeavor took early humans in northern…

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years. This means the hunting weapon could not have been created by modern humans.

Homo sapiens didn’t venture into Europe until

Even in the best of times, long-term observations can be very fragile. It is difficult to convince funding agencies to put money into long-term observations because, by definition, they are continuations; they have been done before. Most funding…

Chikowore says there are many possible explanations for this, ranging from as yet undiscovered genetic variants to the physiological structure of the pancreas. The latter theory arises from research carried out in East Africa, which found that…

Ancient wooden spears unearthed over two decades ago in a German coal mine may be younger…