Science

A surprising discovery made by scientists has rekindled the intriguing idea that there might be an additional force of nature beyond the ones we already know. At the moment, scientists believe four main forces govern how things work in...

Microplastics are in water, soil, air, and just about everywhere around us. Now experts have also detected microplastics in human bodies, the bloodstream of most humans, heart muscles, lungs, and even in placentas and feces of babies. Eating and...

Worsening air pollution and an increase of antibiotic-resistant pathogens are but a few of the world's pressing health problems. These issues are causing millions of early deaths each year. Recent research by experts from Zhejiang University and the University...

Newly discovered tools at Cornell University have led scientists to a fresh understanding of what causes volcanoes to erupt. While geoscientists used to believe that water and shallow magma were the main triggers, this new research reveals that explosive...

As Paris prepares for the Summer Olympics in a year's time, aviation start-up Volocopter aims to make history with its VoloCity program. This commercial aircraft is revolutionising city travel through electrically-powered vertical take-off and landing (EVTOL) technology. The electric aircraft...

New recordings from Mars have delivered the most accurate measurement yet of how fast the red planet spins. The results have left scientists puzzled as mars keeps spinning faster. Using data gathered by the now-retired InSight lander, researchers have discovered...

Medicine has changed beyond recognition in the last 2,000 years. So why should we still care what the ancient Greeks thought of Western medicine? By Helen King The ancient Greeks are widely seen as having been the founders of Western medicine...

It seems that even back in the ancient times, people were prone to depression as archaeological finds of antidepressants in the Ancient Greek city of Bathonea, located on the banks of Küçükçekmece Lake in Turkey, have revealed. The city of...

A recent DNA analysis on 777 ancient genomes from across the so-called Southern Arc, namely Southern Europe and West Asia, redirects the cradle of Indo-Europeans and sheds light on the Proto-Greek prehistoric past. As is well known, the Greek language belongs...

A 3,200-year-old Mesopotamian fragrance has recently been recreated in Diyarbakır, Turkey based on a formula left on an ancient clay tablet by a renowned female perfume maker of the time named Tapputi. The perfume formula was discovered by archaeologists on...

Agnodice was the first woman doctor of Athens in Ancient Greece whose story has been clung to by midwives for millennia. Her story is told by the Roman author Gaius Julius Hyginus in his Fabulae. By Abby Norman Women in...

A Greek man was playing bouzouki in the operating room while the doctors were performing brain surgery on him

Health officials in the US have approved the first pill specifically intended to treat severe depression after childbirth, a condition that affects thousands of new mothers. The Food and Drug Administration on Friday granted approval of the drug, Zurzuvae, for...

Scientists at Michigan State University, led by postdoctoral researcher Mehr Un Nisa, have made a remarkable discovery related to the sun's highest-energy light, known as gamma rays. Usually, this high-energy light doesn't reach the Earth's surface, but it leaves distinct...

In East China, specifically at the site called Hualongdong, scientists conducted an excavation and discovered fossils pointing to a possible third human lineage. To understand these fossils better, they performed two types of assessments: a morphological assessment on the...