Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Thousands of stone tools discovered in a South African cave reveal that Ice Age humans had developed sophisticated fabrication techniques about 20,000 years ago, according to a report in the Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology.

Looking closely at…

The drug is based on research conducted at MIT by Giovanni Traverso, a gastroenterologist and mechanical engineer, and Robert Langer, a chemical engineer who has launched more than two dozen biotech companies.

The two discovered the mechanism when…

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA…

Scientists have constructed the most extensive functional brain map to date, charting the…

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

It is caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus…

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia’s far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.

But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago.

What if the key to sharper focus and a younger brain wasn’t a supplement or app—but turning off your mobile internet? A new study from the University of British Columbia suggests that ditching phone internet access, even…

A new kind of space engine could change how we explore the solar system, and it’s powered by the same force that lights up the stars. A British startup called Pulsar Fusion is working on a nuclear rocket that uses fusion energy to…

The results of searching the family tree of the woolly mammoth have been surprising; it turns out the beasts we most closely associate with the Ice Age emerged not from a linear lineage, but a relatively complex web of genetic diversity.

A study…

Our dogs love the outdoors, but the outdoors don’t love our dogs. A review of previously published studies, released in Pacific Conservation Biology, has found that pet dogs have a number of negative effects on the environment, from their…