Category: 7. SciTech

Ancient, life-size rock carvings depicting camels, gazelles, and other animals have been unearthed in the Saudi Arabian desert, with…

“The biggest challenge is how to make this egg extrude half of its chromosomes—and the correct half,” Amato says. “We’re not quite there yet.” The team dubbed their technique “mitomeiosis” and is trying to better understand how chromosomes like to pair and how they segregate in…

If you have studied almost any European language, you will have noticed words that felt oddly familiar. French mort (dead) recalls English…

Mushrooms may not be the first food that comes to mind when we imagine the diets of wild primates – or our early human ancestors. We tend to…

A newly developed system to deliver tiny capsules containing anti-inflammatory proteins to specific parts of the brain may help fight…

A newly developed vaccine that was found to prevent dangerous immune reactions and life-threatening inflammation in mice could lead to a cure…

New archaeological research suggests that some Stone Age Europeans used vibrant blue pigments to decorate themselves or their possessions – and…

Warning signs like high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol or glucose levels precede almost all cases of heart attack or stroke, according to…

Sometime in the Middle Eocene epoch, nearly 50 million years ago, a large object hurtled through Earth’s atmosphere, crashing into the North Sea between what’s now Britain and northwestern Europe.

The impact formed a crater 1 kilometer (about half a mile) deep and 3 kilometers wide. A plume…