Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The pursuit of de-extinction has broken new ground yet again, as three young wolves are carrying on the legacy of the dire wolf species that disappeared from Earth around 12,500 years ago. Dallas-based Colossal Biosciences, the company leading…

A buried ancient altar at the center of the Maya city of Tikal points to the tensions between the Maya and their neighbors in the late 300s C.E. According to a new study in Antiquity, the altar wasn’t made by artisans trained in Tikal. Instead,…

More than 60 million people globally suffer from heart failure – a condition where the heart is unable to pump blood around the body properly, usually because the heart has become weak or stiff. 

Coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and…

Dinosaurs were living their best life, so legend goes, until the unwelcome arrival of a killer asteroid — Chicxulub — triggered an extinction-level event 66 million years ago. That was until more recent research suggested dinosaurs were…

Anyone who has witnessed a total solar eclipse has likely also noticed the sounds of silence accompanying “totality”. People have long reported anecdotally that birds stop chirping as the day suddenly darkens.

Recording the Sounds of an…

All galaxies (including our own) are thought to exist inside a giant cosmological structure called a dark matter halo — a cloud-like phenomenon made up of invisible matter that forms a scaffold to the visible universe.

These halos are key to the…

They vanished more than 10,000 years ago. But now, a genetic company claims it has successfully revived a dire wolf by sequencing the species’ DNA from ancient fossils.

Colossal Biosciences, the company behind the project, has made…

Scientists want a new mission to hunt for life beyond Earth and the solar system.

The…

Parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may someday see relief from disruptive behaviors associated with ASD, thanks to cannabidiol (CBD) extract treatments, according to research presented at the 2025 European Congress of…

The Roman Empire and the Chinese Han Dynasty may have stood at opposite ends of the Eurasian continent, but they did experience one thing in common — high levels of income inequality.

A team of researchers has demonstrated how large-scale…