Category: 5. Sci-Tech

If you close one eye or put a finger to your ear, there’s an immediate sense of…

The first humans arrived upon the landmass now known as Australia around 60,000 years ago along two distinct routes, according to a new genomics study.

The question of when humans first arrived on the continent is contentious among…

Regardless of how you celebrate end-of-year holidays, food is probably central to your winter…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached a point of irreversible retreat. Glaciers flowing toward the…

Two large gold deposits discovered in China may hold a collective mass of over 2,000 metric tons (2,200 US tons) of the precious material – the largest ever found within the country’s borders.

If confirmed by further geological surveys, the…

When your mom told you to stop crossing your eyes as a kid or they’d stay stuck…

For nearly a century, dark matter has remained an enigma. Despite outnumbering normal matter five to one, it cannot be seen, touched or detected using any known techniques.

Now, a bold new analysis of 15 years of data from NASA’s Fermi…

When do our first thoughts develop? Do they spark in infancy, somewhere in the womb, or even earlier, back when the brain is only a budding clump of cells? Scientists and philosophers have been wrestling with this for decades, trying to figure…

Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 years in the central Southern Cone of South America, and Argentina in particular.

It’s believed to be among the last…