Category: 7. SciTech

Plastic pollution is harming slugs, beetles, snails and earthworms, new research has found, raising fears Britain’s entire food…

Archaeologists in Guatemala have discovered the ruins of a 3,000-year-old Maya city featuring “remarkable” architecture, including pyramids…

Scientists have finally unravelled the complex process that generates sound during handclaps, a discovery that shows how even simple acts can…

Cats with a gene type associated with mixed breeds may purr more at their human companions than those without, according to a new study.

The…

Bedbugs may have been interrupting human sleep for more than 50,000 years, but it was only when humans left caves and formed the first cities…

Bed bugs are more than just a modern nuisance. New research shows they have been with us since humans first started living in caves around 60,000 years ago. That makes them possibly the earliest household pests in human history.

The study, published in Biology Letters, examined the…

The ocean is darkening.

Researchers say more than a fifth of the planet’s ocean — which makes up 70 percent of the surface of the Earth — has been subject…

Researchers say they have gathered evidence of Mars’ atmosphere sputtering for the first time. Understanding how Mars’ atmosphere has changed over time will undoubtedly help us discover more about the planet’s past and how habitable it might be in the future.

It’s widely…

Around 66 million years ago, a six-mile-wide asteroid hit Earth, triggering the extinction of three-quarters of all living species….

In 2022, transportation accounted for nearly 30% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. Most of that came from ICE vehicles running on fossil fuels. Despite years of hype and investment, electric vehicles still make up just 8% of cars on U.S. roads.

For many drivers, switching to an EV is…