Category: 7. SciTech

Fast-tracking a NASA plan to build a nuclear reactor on the moon may sound dubious. Experts say that’s because it is.

“The whole…

Four new species of tarantula have been discovered – and if they knew the name they were going to get, they might have presented themselves sooner.

The males are so well-endowed that scientists essentially named them the ‘genital king.’

Spiders don’t really have penises, in the traditional…

A hidden tectonic fault in Canada’s Yukon could be gearing up to unleash a major earthquake of at least magnitude 7.5, according to a new study.

The Tintina fault, which runs from northeastern British Columbia through to central Alaska, has been quietly accumulating strain for at least 12,000…

WindBorne’s balloons, in contrast, can collect and distribute data from remote regions. That makes them more adaptive, and especially useful for monitoring atmospheric rivers that bring extreme precipitation to coastal regions, said Glackin. “I’d like to see them in the suite of observing…

You may have heard of ‘fibremaxxing’. The recent health trend has been popularised on social media platforms like TikTok and involves people increasing their daily fibre intake dramatically – often well beyond the recommended amount of 25–30g (0.9–1oz) per day – with the aim of…

Our brains glow. We can’t see it happen with the naked eye, but scientists can measure extremely subtle light passing through the skull – and a recent study has found that this light changes depending on what we’re doing.

All living tissue emits a faint light called ultraweak photon…

Thunderstorm safety often comes down to some common sense. Do not go outside or stand under a tree during a thunderstorm. Seek…

A new combination of drugs, including a compound present in chocolate, can treat several influenza strains, including bird and swine flu, a new…

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the

Not all giant meat-eating dinosaurs were the terrifying, bone-crushing predators we imagine. 

A new study published in the journal Current Biology has found that while many theropods – the group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex, Spinosaurus and Allosaurus –…