Category: 7. SciTech

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Copper miners working near the Carpathian mountains in eastern Europe may… Continue Reading

Chile has launched a vaccine described as the first of its kind that sterilizes dogs for a year and is expected to be sold in several dozen countries. The injection prevents sexual behavior and reproduction, offering an alternative to irreversible surgical castration, its creators say. “This is… Continue Reading

Haut is a 21-story timber-hybrid high-rise completed in Amsterdam in 2022. It was designed by the British engineering collective Arup and Team V, a Dutch architecture firm. Haut has 55 apartments, a bicycle parking area, an underground parking garage, and an urban garden. It was the first… Continue Reading

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Cats are able to utilise an unusual awareness of their own body shape and… Continue Reading

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Scurvy, a disease caused by vitamin C… Continue Reading

Meteorites have a pretty bad reputation. The most recent major impact with our planet was – to be fair – pretty devastating, wiping out a good three-quarters of all animal species on the planet. But a much, much larger impactor, much longer ago, may have had the opposite effect. Some 3.26… Continue Reading

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Archaeologists have unearthed an exceptionally rare wooden spade dating… Continue Reading

Cats have lived alongside humans for around 12,000 years, and during that time, it seems they’ve been paying close attention to how we communicate. A new study suggests that our feline companions can even learn to associate the words we use for particular objects or images, and they pick this… Continue Reading

Buildings built with concrete in ancient Rome continue to stand firm to this day. This has spurred many researchers to look for the key to Rome’s success with concrete in the early days, and we may have finally discovered a major breakthrough. See, ancient Roman concrete is much… Continue Reading

A Boeing-built satellite has collapsed in orbit. The satellite, which is officially known as Intelsat 33e, is just one of many that Intelsat uses to power communications around the world. The company reported an outage on October 19, stating that it was working closely with Boeing to… Continue Reading