Category: 7. SciTech

An 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia’s medieval city of Dubrovnik.

The remarkable…

A remarkable piece of American history, a Revolutionary War-era boat, is slowly being reassembled at the New York State Museum, 15 years after…

A kind of helicopter design first envisioned by the Renaissance-era Italian polymath Leonardo Da Vinci could help develop quieter and…

In 2015, two members of the Blue Beach Fossil Museum in Nova Scotia found a long, curved fossil jaw, bristling with teeth. Sonja Wood, the…

A deep, rhythmic pulse has been found surging like a heartbeat deep under Africa.

At the Afar triple junction under Ethiopia, where three tectonic plates meet, molten magma pounds the planet’s crust from below, scientists have discovered.

There, the continent is slowly being torn asunder in…

Stone Age Ireland was likely not ruled over by incestuous “god-kings” 5500 years ago, as previously thought, a team of archaeologists has…

Admit it: you’re currently feeling somewhere between uncomfortably warm and on the verge of spontaneously combusting. Not that we’re judging, mind. This week, temperatures are soaring in the UK and many parts of the US are experiencing a heatwave.

Inevitably, this heat has created a work…

Researchers have raised “urgent concerns” after discovering two new bat viruses in China with the potential to infect humans and cause…

Within a tiny plankton, an even smaller cell has been found living an unexpectedly virus-like existence, challenging what it means to be alive.

The line between living and inanimate has traditionally and controversially been drawn before viruses, and the newly discovered organism,…

Viruses rely on hosts to survive. But some viruses are more effective at reproducing than others. Now, new research has shown that the herpes virus, more specifically herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), can change human DNA after less than an hour of infection.

According to a new study…