Category: 7. SciTech

The first private space science satellite set to study the impact of flares from stars has been launched into space and is now in orbit, the…

Interestingly, a recent study found that people with higher intelligence tend to go through puberty earlier, but they also delay having children and have fewer children overall.

From a biological point of view, this appears contradictory, as reaching puberty early means the body is ready to…

More than 2,000 years ago, pretty much every educated human knew the Earth was round. There are some pretty obvious clues, after all. If you travel south, you see stars and constellations you’ve never seen before (because they’re blocked by Earth’s curvature). When a ship comes into port,…

About 170 years ago, a bundle of stone tools was deliberately buried, or “cached”, near a waterhole in far-west Queensland and never…

A pioneering robotic system is set to revolutionise the painstaking task of reassembling Pompeii’s ancient Roman frescoes, offering a new lease…

A history professor has discovered hidden markings on an ancient Roman cup, revealing secrets of the empire’s glassware culture from around…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is phasing out research conducted on monkeys, according to a new report.

Scientists routinely use…

The human brain goes through five distinct stages of development during the average human lifetime, with measurable key turning points as we…

Two large gold deposits discovered in China may hold a collective mass of over 2,000 metric tons (2,200 US tons) of the precious material – the largest ever found within the country’s borders.

If confirmed by further geological surveys, the Wangu deposit in Hunan province and the Dadonggou…