Category: 7. SciTech

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about the roles of women…

An unassuming butterfly called the Atlas blue has been confirmed to have the greatest known number of chromosome pairs of any animal.

The elusive species (Polyommatus atlantica), which is native to the mountains of North Africa, possesses as many as 229 pairs per cell.

To put that in…

How the Egyptian pyramids were built has long been a mystery. Constructed as tombs for the pharaohs over 4,000 years ago, more than 100 of them remain. The largest one, the Great Pyramid of Giza, was originally 147m tall (482ft).

It’s made up of about 2.3 million stone blocks, each weighing…

“The metal tiles … didn’t work so well,” he said. “They oxidized extremely nice in the high oxygen environment. So, that nice orange color, kind of like a [space] shuttle external tank color, maybe paying homage to the shuttle program, was created by those three little metal tiles up…

Elon Musk is rarely out of the news these days. Widely acknowledged to be the world’s richest man, he’s also known for running a number of major companies.

The trouble is, some of those companies haven’t been doing so well lately.

Twitter (now known as X) is said to have lost around 75 per cent…

A strange fossilised skull found in a Greek cave more than 60 years ago may finally be giving up some of its secrets. New analysis suggests it’s at least 300,000 years old, placing it alongside early Homo sapiens in Africa and the first Neanderthals in Europe.

The Petralona skull, discovered…

If you’ve ever seen an episode of Hot Ones, the YouTube series in which guests have to consume increasingly nuclear hot sauces…

For decades, beekeepers have fought a tiny parasite called Varroa destructor, which has devastated honey-bee colonies around the world. But an…

At a seminar on building cooling strategies in the late 1990s, I vividly remember hearing that “in 30 years’ time, the climate of London will…

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive burns are usually treated by transplanting a thin layer of epidermis, the top layer of skin, from elsewhere on the body. However, this method not only leaves large scars, it also does not restore…