Science & Technology

People who live in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods are about 20 percent less likely to conceive in any given menstrual cycle compared with people living in neighborhoods with more resources, a recent study found.

An archaeological study has determined that cowrie-shell artifacts found throughout the Mariana Islands were lures used for hunting octopuses and that the devices, similar versions of which have been found on islands across the Pacific, are the oldest …