Category: 7. SciTech

The King has recorded a personal message for Antarctic researchers as the southern hemisphere marks the shortest day of the year.

While the UK…

The King has recorded a personal message for Antarctic researchers as the southern hemisphere marks the shortest day of the year.

While the UK…

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet’s surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed “Snowball Earth”.

Liquid water appears to be the most important ingredient for life on any planet, raising the question: how did…

While it’s very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, “life finds a way,” that way can sometimes veer quite far off the beaten path.

One of the most beautiful and strange examples of this is the Pacific barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma), small fish that live in the twilit ocean…

Nearly 80 years ago, a promising astronomy student named Vera Rubin passed up the opportunity for graduate study at Harvard. Now, a decade after her death, the pioneering astronomer will be celebrated on campus as a scientific superstar.

Rubin, whose discoveries about dark matter transformed…

The zombie apocalypse might sound like a great opportunity to wipe your debts and catch up on your reading but if 28 Years Later has taught us anything, it’s that surviving in an undead wasteland is not easy.

As the Danny Boyle film is released, we talk to survival experts and professional…

Supermassive black holes are some of the densest objects found within our universe. These cosmic objects are so heavy that they often weigh billions of times more than our sun, and they’re so dense, not even light can escape their grasp. For the most part, we’ve believed these…

Musk wrote that the nitrogen COPV appears to have failed below its proof pressure, within conditions that should not have damaged the tank. “If further investigation confirms that this is what happened, it is the first time ever for this design,” Musk added.

Picking Up the Pieces

Earlier…

Sometimes, our body needs a helping hand. While the well-oiled machine should run perfectly well with a balanced diet and exercise, a bit of metaphorical lubricant can keep you performing at the highest level.

This is where supplements come in. A vast array of vitamins, herbs and plants with…