Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Most components of the human body have been driven by natural selection to ensure our species’ survival — the chin, though, is not one of them. Chins are uniquely human, since no other animals have them, not even chimpanzees, our closest…

Large earthquakes are unpredictable and do not arrive at regular intervals, according to a…

In 1532, in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a group…

On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to roll back the endangerment finding, which underpins the US’s ability to regulate the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. The rollback, the result of more than 15 years of…

Archaeologists have uncovered the origins of the Bell Beaker people who migrated to Britain…

King cobras are spreading to different parts of India by hitching rides on some of the…

In medieval Denmark, even death came with a price tag. The closer your grave lay to the church walls — or even inside them — the more it cost, signaling wealth and status that extended beyond life. But what happened if you were visibly ill in…

In 1532, in the city of Cajamarca, Peru, Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro and a group of Europeans took the Inca ruler Atahualpa hostage, setting the stage for the fall of the Inca Empire.

Before this fateful attack, Pizarro’s brother,…