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Scientists have revealed what the voice of a mummified Egyptian priest who lived 3,000 years ago would have sounded like by 3-D printing his vocal tract.

The most effective way to brew espresso with the least amount of wasted coffee is to use coarser grinds, a new U.K. study using mathematical modelling has determined.

Walking sharks could be the most recently evolved shark on Earth. That's according to findings published this week in Marine and Freshwater Research.

A new study by an international research team has found that some victims of the Mount Vesuvius eruption had a slower death than initially believed.

Tinder is following in Uber's lead in adding in-app safety features for dates that become unsafe.

As the number of cases of the Wuhan coronavirus spike and health officials try to contain the outbreak, a new map has been released that lets you track the virus.

It looks like a piece of rock - black, shiny and unexceptional. But Italian anthropologists say the fragment is actually part of an exploded brain from an unfortunate victim of the volcanic eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

A 96-year-old woman from Toronto ticked a wish off her bucket list when she talked to an astronaut on the International Space Station. 1

Locusts by the millions are nibbling their way across a large part of Africa in the worst outbreak some places have seen in 70 years. Is this another effect of a changing climate? Yes, researchers say. An unprecedented food security crisis may be the result.

A new strain of coronavirus that emerged in China may have originated in bats or snakes, according to genetic analysis of the virus that has so far killed 17 people.

The results are finally in for the first chocolate chip cookie bake-off in space. While looking more or less normal, the best cookies required two hours of baking time last month up at the International Space Station.

Officials with the Alberta government say a slimy international traveller was found in a lake near the town of Vulcan late last year.

UN human rights experts are asking Washington to investigate a suspected Saudi hack that may have siphoned data from the personal smartphone of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. 1