French researchers have found that women and men have a different cochlea. A discovery that will have an impact in archeology but also in forensic medicine. The colored dots illustrate the difference in torsion between a womans cochlea (left) and a mans cochlea (right). In both men and women, the
Reconstruction of the physiognomy of Lucy, the specimen of Australopithecus afarensis found in Africa 41 years ago Today Google celebrate with one of her beautiful doodle themed, the 41st anniversary of one of the most important discoveries always, the remains of an Australopithecus af
A rare piece of glass was discovered during an archaeological dig at Lindisfarne – the small Northumbrian island whose medieval monastery was raided by Vikings in 793 AD, heralding the start of the Viking Age in Britain. The piece was discovered in September 2019 during a community archaeological d
The oldest genome of the bacterium Escherichia coli could be reconstructed from 400-year-old fragments. An opportunity to better understand the history of this pathogen responsible for food poisoning. E.coli bacteria seen in electron microscopy. Unlike well-documented pandemics like the Black De