Category: 7. SciTech

Opium use may have been a “fixture of daily life” for Ancient Egyptians, according to a new study.

Experts from the Yale Peabody Museum…

After delays have been affecting airports nationwide due to the government shutdown, Apple launched a new feature on Wednesday to try to ease…

Thousands of manmade chemicals might be interfering with the genes of birds before they hatch, according to a recent study on ducklings.

Scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) injected small amounts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) into mallard duck…

In many churches, often strapped for cash, the switch to a heat pump may be borne from necessity. Staff at St. Peter Mancroft Church in Norwich, which already had solar panels, opted to make the jump to a heat pump system when one of their old gas boilers failed.

“The church decided this was a…

Do you know what want to have happen to your body after you die? Do you want to be cremated, buried, or given an epic Viking…

Scientists have created a new tool that estimates a person’s risk of developing memory and thinking problems linked to Alzheimer’s disease…

A common virus that infects most people can trigger the chronic immune system condition lupus, according to a new study.

Nearly 5 million people…

The dream of creating game-changing quantum computers — supermachines that encode information in single atoms rather than conventional bits — has been hampered by the formidable challenge known as quantum error correction.

In a paper published Monday in Nature, Harvard researchers…