Category: 7. SciTech

Sign up to our free Living Well email for advice on living a happier, healthier and longer life Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Live your life healthier and happier with our free weekly Living Well newsletter Drinking elderberry juice daily can lead… Continue Reading

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Women were at the centre of early Iron Age British communities, a new analysis of 2,000-year-old DNA reveals. The research, published in the… Continue Reading

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email A longstanding question about the history of humanity has been answered, researchers announced Thursday. More than a million years ago, long… Continue Reading

As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have been interested in DNA as a way to store digital information. After all, DNA is nature’s way of storing data. It encodes genetic information and determines the blueprint of every living thing… Continue Reading

What if you could travel through time and watch history unfold, one era at a time? With TimeMap.org, you can do just that—no time machine required. This interactive history map lets you dive into the past, offering a unique way to see when, where, and how historical events shaped our… Continue Reading

What if the solution to our plastic waste problem was hiding in your bathroom cabinet? Scientists have found a surprising way to turn trash into treasure—by creating recycled plastic soap. Yes, the same material polluting oceans and clogging landfills could one day help you scrub up… Continue Reading

According to an utterly believable survey by YouGov in 2023, almost half of men think they could safely land a plane in an emergency. We’re not here to ground anybody’s confidence, but landing an aircraft – especially a large passenger plane – without experience is an extremely difficult… Continue Reading

At 06:59 Central European time time on January 8, the BepiColombo spacecraft successfully performed its sixth flyby of Mercury, the innermost planet in the solar system. This was a “gravity assist maneuver,” a move that used Mercury’s gravitational pull to alter the BepiColombo vehicle’s… Continue Reading

AirNow’s fire map includes data from PurpleAir sensors (that’s what the small circles represent), and Watch Duty, a nonprofit app for tracking fires, also displays PurpleAir data. But likely due to different calculations and processing delays, the air quality index reported by the same… Continue Reading

CES, the biggest tech show in the world, has just concluded, showcasing a truly mind-boggling array of innovations. Yet while the focus will be on the latest artificial intelligence developments, flying cars and medical marvels, there were far more, shall we say, interesting advances on… Continue Reading