Category: 7. SciTech

Construction workers in Cologne, Germany, have unearthed a significant Roman site dating back almost 2,000 years.

The accidental discovery, made…

Henry VIII is not remembered as a loving husband. Any English schoolchild can recount the unpleasant fates of most of his six wives with the…

A dinosaur’s tooth found embedded in the skull remains of another has revealed insights into the final moments of a fight between two giant…

Human ancestor species Homo erectus arrived in East Asia hundreds of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, a new fossil discovery…

A wide range of dogs, including the Chinese-origin Japanese Chin and the Pekingese, suffer from the same breathing condition faced by…

Deer have the ability to see ultraviolet light, and a recent study shows they can also leave a glowing trail visible in those wavelengths, too.

The discovery casts a whole new light on the way deer are communicating with each other, and how they perceive their environment.

Male white-tailed…

Although Earth is approximately spherical, its gravity field doesn’t adhere to the same geometry. In visualizations, it more closely resembles a potato, with bumps and divots.

One of the strongest of these depressions – where the gravity field is weaker – lies under Antarctica. Now, new…

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) – An ungainly barrel of a shark cruising languidly over a barren seabed far too deep for the sun’s rays to illuminate was an unexpected sight.

Many experts had thought sharks didn’t exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica before this sleeper shark lumbered warily…

An unexpected sight has challenged long-held scientific assumptions about marine life in Antarctica, after a substantial sleeper shark was…