Category: 7. SciTech

Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say.

Monogamy in humans is comparable more to the exclusive…

Picture a scientist with a provocative hypothesis — something that defies conventional wisdom or verges on the outlandish.

Supporting the pursuit of that big, bold claim is the goal of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science’s new Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence (ECEE)…

Cats meow more at owners who are men than women, new research has found, possibly because men tend to be more aloof when it comes to giving their pets attention.

Led by a team from Ankara University in Türkiye, the research is based on video footage captured by 31 cat owners. Each…

They say one person’s trash is another’s treasure, but a chunk of ‘rock’ used to keep a door open for decades is a treasure by almost anyone’s standards.

A woman discovered the 3.5-kilogram (7.7-pound) stone in a stream bed in southeast Romania, brought it home, and used it as a doorstop.

Her…

Scientists have developed a way to turn cooking oil waste discarded by restaurants into recyclable plastic and a superglue strong enough to tow…

Bolivia’s central highlands, once believed to be home to monstrous creatures leaving huge, three-toed footprints, have now yielded the world’s…

Chinese scientists have genetically tweaked a fungus to make protein-rich “meat”, which they say can be a low-cost, environmentally…

Archaeologists have found compelling evidence that the early humans who inhabited the Indonesian island of Flores were wiped out by climate…

A team of physicians specializing in genetics and neurology discovered that mental illnesses such as schizophrenia are closely linked to mutations in the GRIN2A gene. The scientists mantain that identifying this genetic risk factor opens up the possibility of designing preventive therapies in…