Researchers dosed microscopic hydra with cannabinoids to monitor their eating habits, and in 2000, a study at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh injected THC into the cerebrospinal fluid of rats and…
Scientists study the secrets of 2,500-year-old mummified animals ,For early archaeologists, the only way to peer into an ancient coffin or container was to take the artifact apart. Actually it…
On April 12, 1955, virologists announced that they had developed a safe and potent vaccine against poliothe deadly, paralyzing disease which then tortured thousands of people in the US Launching…
This article was originally published on July 7, 2022. Scientists have fully sequenced the DNA of a victim from Pompeii The morning of August 24 could have started like any…
In 1895, seven men from the Norwegian whaling ship Antarctica made the first substantiated landing on the Antarctic continent. But it was four long decades before a woman could claim…
A substrate composed of microbes may have preserved a series of 255-million-year-old burrows made in a sandy South African tidal flat by a clumsy amphibian, says a new study. The…
Giving birth to a son can be a costly experience for mother killer whales, also known as killer whales — and it comes at the expense of giving birth to…
Cocaine is perhaps best known as a dangerous drug. But it is also legally used as a local anesthetic for operations. Scientists in China have genetically engineered a tobacco plant…
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When it comes to scientific, archaeological and paleontological discoveries, the girls really cut it! If a simple Google search is anything to go by, sometimes it seems like girls are…