Category: 7. SciTech

A federal vaccine advisory committee made of members hand-picked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recommended in an 8-3 vote on Thursday that the combined measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (MMRV) vaccine should not be given before age four, citing long-known…

A student has discovered what is thought may be a rare carving of a Pict’s face while volunteering on a dig.

Jodie Allan was digging at East…

Human history is rife with contentions about the purity (and superiority) of the bloodlines of one group over another and claims over ancestral homelands.

More than a decade of work on ancient human DNA has upended it all.

Instead, Harvard geneticist David Reich said on Monday,…

Since 2012, geneticist David Reich and his team of researchers have been studying DNA from living and ancient people to probe mysteries surrounding the origins of human life. But the future of their work faces uncertainty after the Trump administration’s mass cancellation of nearly $2.7…

Are those teeth on your forehead or are you just happy to see me? In the curious case of chimaeras, also called ghost sharks, the answer is ‘both.’

These forehead-teeth are attached to a retractable stalk called a tenaculum, and they help chimaeras have sex. Because of course.

Whether these…

Real-time footage of a human embryo implanting into an artificial uterus has been captured for the first time.

The remarkable feat, published in the journal Science Advances, offers an unprecedented view into one of the most critical steps in human development. 

Implantation failure in the…

Malaria-carrying mosquitoes are evading efforts to control them in growing numbers.

But this may be coming to an end soon, as a group of…

Scientists have unearthed prehistoric insects preserved in amber in South America for the first time, offering an unprecedented glimpse into a…

Frozen in time 112 million years ago, an entire ecosystem preserved in amber has been unearthed from a quarry in Ecuador. The scene contains bugs, pollen, and even strands of spider web.

This is the first large discovery of insect-laden amber in South America, providing an unprecedented view…

From butterflies to grasshoppers, many delicate little things that run our world are in dire trouble. Not just in regions where human activity directly affects the landscape, but even in remote, human-free zones, a new study finds.

The loss of insects in key areas around the globe has been…