Category: 7. SciTech

Construction workers renovating a Vienna football field stumbled upon a grim piece of history: a mass grave containing the skeletal remains of…

An ancient stamp unearthed by a metal detectorist suggests the Sutton Hoo was actually made in Denmark, and not Sweden as previously…

Archaeologists have confirmed that a “beautiful stone” picked up by a child in Israel’s Tel Azekah area is actually a Bronze Age scarab…

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth’s crust is dripping into the planetary interior.

There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle of the planet, eventually gaining enough mass to precipitate deeper, a slow, gradual…

Earth’s space junk problem isn’t just growing—it’s accelerating. According to the European Space Agency’s latest Space Environment Report, 2024 saw some of the largest debris-generating events in decades. And with satellite launches continuing to surge, experts are warning…

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye reveal herbivores and carnivores coexisted at freshwater lagoons some 167 million…

It is a charming scene in The Sound of Music when Maria and the Von Trapp children sing about a lonely goatherd yodelling in the Austrian Alps (lay-ee-odl-lay-ee-odl-lay-hee-hoo).

But little did these characters know, their yodelling would be put to shame by monkeys in the rainforests of Latin…

What was meant to be a triumphant crewed test flight for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft nearly became a catastrophe. And new revelations from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams show the mission, which launched in June 2024, faced far more serious issues than the agency…

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye show herbivores and carnivores drank from freshwater lagoons together 167 million…

Smokers are increasingly unconvinced of the benefits of switching to e-cigarettes, or ‘vaping’ – using an electronic device to heat a liquid that contains nicotine and inhaling the vapour (as opposed to breathing in the smoke from burning tobacco).

Last year, over a third of smokers