Category: 7. SciTech

If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that close to the center of the galaxy there are elongated filaments that seem to outline its spiral shape. Scientists have a nickname for these structures: “galactic bones.” Recently, astronomers found that one of…

Sobriety is becoming cool. Gen Z, in particular, is less likely to drink than generations before them.

Drinking rates among US adults under the age of 34 have fallen by 10 percentage points over the last 20 years, from 72 to 62 per cent, according to Gallup polling.

In the UK, recent health…

Tiny, fuzzy blobs. I’ve spent a lot of time in the last few years looking at images of tiny, fuzzy blobs. They’re only ever a few pixels wide, like smudges on a photo, but they could be the key that unlocks the mystery of dark matter.

The blobs are galaxies: swirling pools of stars and…

Almost two decades of research shows strong evidence of long-term friendship among African starlings, a discovery that sheds fresh light on…

Earth’s core is rich with gold, and it’s leaking out through the mantle and into the crust, new research has found.

A new study of isotopes found in the volcanic rock that oozed out from deep under the lithosphere has revealed precious metals in Earth’s crust, including gold, initially leaked…

Scientists have caught the intricate dance of cardiac cells coming together to build a heart, in a mesmerizing new timelapse taken during the development of a mouse embryo.

The images were captured using a technique called light-sheet microscopy (LSM). Essentially, LSM involves scanning a…

Researchers in China have developed a pair of contact lenses that can help people see infrared light, potentially giving wearers functional night vision. The lenses were tested on both mice and humans, and the results suggest this technology could one day replace bulky night vision…

Spiny, snooty, and strange, echidnas are among Australia’s wackiest animals. They’re mammals, which means they feed their young milk, but only after the puggle (that’s the word for a newborn echidna) hatches from an egg.

Now, biologists from the University of Adelaide in Australia have taken…

For decades, LSD has been associated with vivid hallucinations and counterculture movements. But now, researchers at the University of California, Davis, have discovered a way to tweak this powerful compound into something far more therapeutic, and far less trippy. The team says it has…

A newly discovered species of bacteria has been found living aboard China’s Tiangong space station, and scientists say it may be uniquely adapted to survive the extreme conditions of space. Named Niallia tiangongensis, the microbe was detected on the cockpit controls inside the…