Category: 7. SciTech

It’s the kind of “scale shock” that isn’t all that shocking. For those of us brave enough to step onto the scale the day…

Fossilized remnants of ancient carbon from the heart of South Africa’s Mpumalanga province have just yielded the earliest chemical evidence yet of life on Earth.

According to a new analysis using machine learning, fragmentary traces of carbon from the Josefsdal Chert, dating back 3.33…

A 4,300-year-old silver goblet unearthed in occupied Palestine may bear the earliest known artistic depiction of the origin of the Universe,…

Archaeologists have uncovered the secrets of a “vast” 3,500-year-old settlement in Kazakhstan thought to have been an early form of a…

Switching to a plant-based diet rich in fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes may help prevent and even reverse heart disease in hypertension…

The breakdown of protective “nets” around nerve cells in the brain may be why Alzheimer’s patients forget their loved ones, according to…

Startup Valar Atomics said on Monday that it achieved criticality—an essential nuclear milestone—with the help of one of the country’s top nuclear laboratories. The El Segundo, California-based startup, which last week announced it had secured a $130 million funding round with backing from…