Category: 7. SciTech

UK scientists have won a £150,000 prize for creating a device inspired by a microwave – which can create drinkable water on the moon.

It probably feels obvious that having a close friend can influence your well-being. But do the groups that you’re a part of also affect your well-being? For example, does the culture of your work colleagues influence your productivity?

It may seem like the answer is also an obvious “yes.”…

A rare partial solar eclipse will rise over parts of North America and Europe on Saturday 29 March 2025, offering early risers a dramatic display – including a ‘double sunrise’.

“From wherever you see the eclipse, it will be a wonderful sight,” Prof Darren Baskill, astronomy lecturer at…

The age of the Universe can be derived by measuring its current rate of expansion and then extrapolating backwards. In practice, however, we also have to know how that expansion rate may have changed through time, and this is dictated by the matter composition and energy density of the…

Your birthday might tell you how many years you’ve been alive, but it doesn’t reveal how well your body is holding up. Now, scientists in Japan have developed an AI biological age test that can do exactly that, using nothing more than five drops of blood.

Created by a research team…

Sometimes evolution produces an organism so weird and wonderfully different to anything that we know of that scientists are stumped. Enter the Tully monster, a soft-bodied sea creature that swam in the muddy estuaries of what’s now Illinois, around 300 million years ago.

It was discovered in…

It’s easy to assume people with obesity eat more because they simply love food more. However, new research suggests the opposite. In fact, the more weight you gain, the less pleasure your brain actually gets from food. This has to do with the connection between your brain’s level…

Centuries-old buildings and a massive stone fort in St. Augustine, Florida, serve as enduring reminders of Spain’s long history in the…

A spacecraft that is used to bring food, fuel and other supplies to the International Space Station has reportedly been damaged, putting…

“What we expected out of this initial transplant was to demonstrate that the method was safe and that it was feasible,” Orwig says. Ultrasounds show that Hsu’s testicular tissue was unharmed by the procedure and his hormone levels are in the normal range. For now, his semen still lacks…