Category: 7. SciTech

Archaeologists have unravelled the “murder mystery” of a teenage girl buried 2,000 years ago at an Iron Age settlement in Dorset during…

Spraying particles into Earth’s atmosphere to try and cool a warming planet might sound like a good idea in theory, but it will only work if it’s done properly – and even then, it could carry risks that might spill beyond our control, scientists caution.

According to a team led by aerosol…

On 24 February 1997, Jerry Linenger and his five crewmates faced a danger they hoped they’d never meet: a fire aboard their space station, which, at present, was hundreds of kilometres above the surface of Earth.

The blaze began shortly after dinner, when Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin…

On 24 February 1997, Jerry Linenger and his five crewmates faced a danger they hoped they’d never meet: a fire aboard their space station, which, at present, was hundreds of kilometres above the surface of Earth.

The blaze began shortly after dinner, when Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Lazutkin…

Collected from the Colombian Amazon, they had been without food for several days in captivity and then were presented with extremely unappetizing prey: three-striped poison dart frogs, Ameerega trivittata.

The skin of those frogs contains deadly toxins…

TfL, to its credit, has made many efforts over the years to try to deal with the problem of hot tunnels, including attaching cooling panels to tunnel walls. The panels, which circulate water to remove heat from the air, were deployed in a trial in 2022, though they are not currently in use. Paul…

In 1999, Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez shot one of the definitive horror films of the era on a budget of roughly $60,000. The…