Category: 7. SciTech

Touch both objects. They’re the same temperature, but the wood feels warmer, right? Why is that? It’s not about temperature but thermal energy. When your hand touches an object, there is a heat conduction interaction. Energy is transferred from your warmer hand to the cooler object until the…

Archaeologists have uncovered what could be a 16th-century merchant vessel’s remains off the coast of southern France, marking the deepest

Fish like the rainbow trout suffer 2 to 20 minutes of excruciating pain while they are harvested and killed for food, according to a new…

The China National Space Administration has shared the first image from its Tianwen-2 probe, which is en route to Kamo’oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid.

The image was captured by a camera onboard the probe, which is currently more than 3 million kilometers from Earth, and shows one of its wings…

When Apollo astronauts first set foot on the lunar surface, they expected to find grey rocks and dust.

What they didn’t anticipate was discovering something that looked almost magical: tiny, brilliant orange glass beads scattered across the Moon’s landscape like microscopic gems.

These beads,…

A fisherman at sea off the coast of Canada recorded something that few humans have ever seen.

Floating serenely amid the pale ice chunks in the Labrador Sea was one iceberg that appeared as black as soot.

Hallur Antoniussen, aboard the fishing trawler Saputi in mid-May, was gobsmacked – but…

At first glance, dinosaur fossils and modern cancer research may seem worlds apart.

But a new study suggests that soft tissue preserved for millions of years inside ancient bones could offer valuable insights into how cancer works – and how we might treat it today.

Researchers from the UK…

When outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases such as measles occur despite highly effective vaccines being available, it’s easy to conclude that parents who don’t vaccinate their children are misguided, selfish or have fallen prey to misinformation.

As professors with expertise in vaccine…

Archaeologists have discovered what they say are the remains of a 16th-century merchant ship more than 2.5 kilometres underwater off southern France, the deepest such find in its section of the Mediterranean or any other French waters.

Archaeologists believe the ship was sailing from northern…

The future of green energy could be unlocked by a super rare mineral, researchers claim. The mineral in question is jadarite. It resembles kryptonite, the crystals that Lex Luthor often uses to weaken Superman in DC Comics, in more than one way. The mineral has only ever been found in…