Category: 7. SciTech

The Perseids are one of 2025’s most prolific meteor showers of the year and a great reason to look up at the night sky.

The meteor shower is known for having some of the highest meteor rates – up to 100 per hour under absolutely perfect conditions.

Plus, if you’re getting up early to see…

The potato, a global food staple first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region of South America before its worldwide spread from…

Utility workers expanding gas networks in Peru’s capital, Lima, have unearthed two pre-Incan tombs, one containing the 1,000-year-old remains…

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers?

Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with scientists in the South African province of…

Despite the best of intentions, travelers aren’t always in the clearest headspace when making a mad dash to the airport. So…

Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection and survival preserved in the teeth of those who…

South Africa has launched an innovative anti-poaching campaign, injecting rhino horns with radioactive isotopes to deter illegal trafficking….

Late in the evening, the Antarctic sky flushes pink. The male leopard seal wakes and slips from the ice into the water. There, he’ll spend the night singing underwater amongst the floating ice floes.

For the next two months he sings every night. He will sing so loudly, the ice around him…