Category: 7. SciTech

In most of the United States, spring’s bird migration is in full swing. Thousands of species are trekking thousands of miles across the continent, laying eggs, nesting, and taking advantage of the…

A killer fungus is set to spread through new parts of Europe due to rising temperatures, according to new climate change research.

Aspergillus,…

Archaeologists have unearthed a “very rare” Roman-era horse cemetery in Germany containing the skeletons of over a hundred horses and that…

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine, semiconductors, and more. Or, as she puts it, “We’re building a box that makes money in space.”

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals.

In the aftermath of…

A field in the Scottish countryside near the Solway Firth was likely the world’s oldest football pitch, a historian has claimed.

The field was…

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and welfare, new research shows.

At first glance, Persian cats and pugs don’t seem like they’d have much in common. One’s a cat, the other’s a dog, separated by 50…

New analysis of a 100-million-year-old fossil embedded in a rocky cove in Australia suggests echidnas may have evolved from swimming ancestors.

That’s basically unheard of: While there are many examples of land-dwelling mammals evolving into a more aquatic lifestyle, it seems that at some…

An invasive lizard species that looks as if its head was dunked in bright orange mac-and-cheese powder is taking over Florida.

Peter’s rock…

A new scientific breakthrough could reshape how the world responds to deadly snakebites. Thanks to antibodies found in the blood of a man who has spent nearly two decades building immunity to snake venom, the ultimate snake antivenom could be well within reach.

Tim Friede, a former…