Category: 7. SciTech

Spring is underway in the Northern Hemisphere–and so is allergy season. While that means warmer temps and blooming flowers and trees, it also means that unpleasant sneezing and coughing from common…

This Saturday, the April full moon, known as the Pink Moon, will rise in the eastern sky just after sunset, offering a beautiful and slightly misleading name. Though it won’t glow pink, this full moon brings a great view worth catching for anyone who enjoys watching the heavens.

The…

Just a stone’s throw from the centre of Tikal – the vast Maya city in the heart of modern-day Guatemala – archaeologists have unearthed a chilling new clue to one of the most turbulent periods in ancient Mesoamerican history. 

At the heart of a buried residential compound, researchers…

Scientists have recreated the brain circuit responsible for transmitting feelings of pain for the first time.

The breakthrough, made by a team…

The drug is based on research conducted at MIT by Giovanni Traverso, a gastroenterologist and mechanical engineer, and Robert Langer, a chemical engineer who has launched more than two dozen biotech companies.

The two discovered the mechanism when working on a way to develop liquid drug…

Dallas-based biotech company Colossal has announced the birth of three pups bearing the DNA signatures of dire wolves, an iconic predator last…

Scientists have constructed the most extensive functional brain map to date, charting the connections of 84,000 neurons as they transmit…

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

It is caused by a spore-forming bacterium, Bacillus anthracis, which survives for decades in soil…

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia’s far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.

But the body they were dissecting is a baby mammoth who died around 130,000 years ago.

Discovered last year, the calf – nicknamed Yana, for…