Category: 7. SciTech

Regardless of how you celebrate end-of-year holidays, food is probably central to your winter festivities. And a trio of spices – cinnamon,…

Feeling tired is the new normal

Suffering from poor concentration, cravings, or bad coordination? These are all signs of sleep deprivation – and it’s a worldwide issue.

Globally, roughly two-thirds of adults are estimated to wake up at least once each night. In the UK, 1 in 5 adults…

From non-stick frying pans to stain-resistant sofas, some of the most innovative everyday products are made using chemicals known as per- and…

Scientists have sequenced the genome of the elusive “vampire squid from hell” for the first time, providing insights into the origin of…

Most UK rivers are contaminated by a chemical called trifluoroacetic acid (TFA). This is a type of human-made chemical known as perfluorinated…

New Zealand is urging the public to look out for nests of invasive Asian yellow-legged hornets that are…

A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance.

The newly named Incendiamoeba cascadensis – meaning “fire amoeba from the Cascades”, as described in a preprint on bioRxiv – grows and…

People can form extremely deep bonds with their pets, seeing them as loyal companions and family members. For this reason, when someone loses a pet, the experience can be as distressing as suffering the loss of a person. 

A key factor that can aggravate pet grief is social isolation, so it’s…

The elusive ‘vampire squid from hell’ has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes.

Hidden in its mix of A, T, G, and C was a deep evolutionary story. Despite…

Game hunters have found startlingly ‘neon blue’ flesh inside of wild pigs in California, triggering advisory statements on potential contamination.

“I’m not talking about a little blue,” Dan Burton, owner of a wildlife control company, told Salvador Hernandez at The Los Angeles Times.

“I’m…