Category: 7. SciTech

It’s fertility on ice. Egg-freezing boomed in the last decade, with a 400 percent increase since 2012. Now, research about sperm…

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its DNA within just an hour after infection, according…

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been…

A new study has pinpointed what could be the oldest rocks on Earth, found within a remote Canadian rock formation, offering fresh insights into…

Mice with two fathers and no mother have now had offspring of their own. The study is a breakthrough in androgenesis – that is, asexual reproduction using only genetic material from male animals.

We’ve seen androgenesis in mice work in the lab before: earlier this year, researchers were…

Switching to a vegan diet can help…

Scientists have caught ancient parasitic fungi in the act of bursting from insect hosts, in dramatic scenes frozen in amber.

Dating back almost 100 million years, these two specimens are among the oldest evidence of ‘zombie’ fungus, second only to one early-Cretaceous species discovered back…

When Charles Darwin first proposed how evolution works in 1859, it seemed plausible. Tiny changes stack up over time, eventually leading a species to become something entirely different. Aside from the evidence we have already that this might not be the case, as the fossil records just…

NASA and others have been wanting to get humans to Mars for decades at this point. However, actually getting us there is still far from feasible, despite all of Elon Musk’s talk about putting boots on the ground within the next 20 years. There’s still much we don’t know about…

Mars may look like a sphere, but it’s actually a triaxial ellipsoid. Unlike any other rocky planet in the Solar System, it’s shaped rather like a rugby ball, but with different sizes along all three axes.

This is most evident as a prominent bulge in elevation in the Tharsis Rise region and…