Neanderthal burials could shed light on their cognitive abilities and social customs
It's a topic of long-standing debate among archaeologists. Now, evidence of funerary behavior could shed light on the cognitive abilities and social customs of...
Year Two of the Coronavirus pandemic: What to expect?
Here's what to expect in this new year.
The next few months will be rough
We've had a tough holiday season -- and things aren't expected...
Japan wants to bring space travel into the city by building spaceports like airports
Cylindrical steel and glass towers protrude through solar panels on the vast circular roof of the futuristic, four-story Spaceport City.
The spaceport rises from a...
Quantum computing could revolutionize the future
With such mind-bending predictions, it is entirely reasonable to imagine that no useful technology could arise from quantum physics. However, this is not true....
New NASA space telescope in a mission to explore the Big Bang
The mission will further our understanding of how the universe rapidly expanded right after the Big Bang occurred.
During a two-year run, NASA's SPHEREx space...
The vaccines are the best news we can hope for
Last month, the US introduced a pair of new vaccines that were developed using a novel scientific technique to stop the spread of a...
New study finds that identical twins aren’t always genetically identical
Scientists have long used the study of identical twins to examine the effects of nature versus nurture, as the accepted view has been that,...
A Covid-19 at-home test is now available on Amazon
The DxTerity Covid-19 Saliva at-Home Collection Kit, which received an emergency use authorization last month from the Food and Drug Administration, appears to be...
An unclassified report on UFOs must be released in 180 days, thanks to the...
No, really.
The US director of National Intelligence and the secretary of defense have a little less than six months now to provide the congressional...
How Nigeria’s ‘techpreneurs’ use technology to provide life-changing solutions
Nigeria, Africa's most populous country, has 90 tech hubs -- the most on the continent. In 2019, one report found startups in Nigeria raised...