Category: 7. SciTech

When you try to come up with the Earth’s largest waterfall, there are a lot of factors to take into account. Some might break it down based on sheer size, the flow rate or volume of water coming through it, and more. But, if you ask the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration…

One of the best meteor showers of 2025, the Perseids, is set to kick off this month, as the shower will reportedly be active from July 14 to September 1. Despite having such a long activity time, though, the meteor shower isn’t expected to peak until well into August — the night of…

Older adults who play musical instruments have healthier brains, according to two recent studies, suggesting that tickling the ivories could help to protect you from dementia.

While one study looked at the effects of practising music for decades, the other investigated picking up a new…

Far from the shore, out in the vast expanses of the open seas lives a group of unusual animals, collectively known as ‘neuston’.

Their home is the giant, two-dimensional skin of the sea, which forms a link between the atmosphere and the ocean.

Within this family, one of the most curious…

An erotic-themed mosaic from the Roman era was returned to Pompeii on Tuesday after being stolen by a Nazi during the Second World War.

The…

Denmark has the best environmental, social and political conditions you need to age more slowly and lead a healthier life as you grow older, according to new research.

Published in Nature Medicine, the study identified the factors that shape the biological processes behind how healthily you age….

Beneath a darkening sky, the stars are just beginning to freckle through the canopy of a thick forest. Smoke unfurls upward from the…

Blue sharks have become very well known for the color of their skin, but new research indicates that these iconic sharks might be more than meets the eye. In fact, blue sharks might just be one of nature’s best chameleons, as new data suggests the components responsible for the…

NASA has been slowly working the Parker Solar Probe closer and closer to the Sun ever since its launch in 2018. The probe, which is heralded as the fastest object humans have ever made, has broken several records along the way. Now, it looks like NASA has used the probe to take the…

Sometime early in the history of life on Earth, a meteor at least 1 kilometer wide came screaming through the atmosphere and slammed into what is now Western Australia. The impact likely unleashed a cataclysm — a fireball estimated to be more than 8 miles wide with an energy 2,000 times…