Category: 9. Sci/Tech

If you’re reading this, you are probably fairly certain that you’re conscious. You likely assume that your loved ones, your less-loved ones and even your weird neighbour are all conscious too.

They look and act like you – a fellow human –…

By now, we all know what social media is about. Sure, sites like Facebook and Instagram help us stay connected and keep up with celebrity gossip, but at their core, they’re money-making businesses powered by advertising revenue.

For most of us,…

As anyone who’s seen a photo of Dwayne Johnson with curly hair can attest — some people were simply meant to be bald. But for the millions of people who have baldness thrust upon them – by genes, ageing, hormones or a medical condition –…

It’s no secret that women and men experience pain differently, and there are a variety of reasons to cause this variance in pain perception. Hormones are known to influence pain sensitivity, body structure affects the density of pain receptors,…

More and more people are turning to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to have babies. The process can be arduous, requiring injections of costly hormones twice a day for two weeks to mature eggs so that they can be retrieved from the body.

New York…

Visitors to the site of Pompeii, the ancient Roman town buried (and so preserved for…

Days before a devastating earthquake struck Myanmar, killing over 3,000 people and injuring…

In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a piece of furniture when the sales associate asked if they’d like to add fabric protectant. Kenney, the cabinet secretary of New Mexico’s Environment Department, asked to…

Almost 4,000 years ago, a Mesopotamian man named Nanni was so disappointed with the copper he bought from a trader named Ea-nāṣir, that he decided to write a formal complaint. Today, this Bronze Age clay tablet is the oldest customer…

A new study suggests a surprising and potentially game-changing approach to stopping malaria that involves turning human blood into a death sentence for mosquitos. The secret lies in an existing drug called nitisinone, which, once…