Category: 9. Sci/Tech

More than 80 million Americans are diagnosed with some type of allergy. Allergies can be caused by the environment, pets, food, and medication, with symptoms ranging from an annoying runny nose to deadly anaphylaxis. Although effective treatments…

You’re neck-deep in IKEA assembly instructions. Furniture parts lie strewn across the floor. Your new purchase sits half-complete in front of you, mocking your fruitless hours. As an uninterested partner walks in, you let the frustration…

Maria Branyas Morera — born on March 4th, 1907, in San Francisco to Spanish parents — survived two world wars, the Spanish Influenza, a civil war, and, more recently, the pandemic.

From January 17, 2023, until her death in 2024, Branyas was…

Losing your baby teeth is a strange experience.

The teeth gradually loosen until they’re…

In 1990, researchers pulled a damaged cranium out of the layers of sediment in Central China. The skull was difficult to identify due to the distortion, but was assigned to the early human lineage Homo erectus, based on the age of the surrounding…

New archaeological research suggests that some Stone Age Europeans used vibrant blue pigments…

In 2007, something strange happened over the eastern Atlantic Ocean. According to satellites orbiting Earth, our planet’s gravity field developed a continent-scale anomaly before subsiding to its original state.

The odd event, undetectable to…

Archaeologists found a bone whistle used by ancient Egyptian guards to warn of grave robbers,…