Category: 7. SciTech

Neighborhoods across the Southeast need to be on the look out for venomous Asian needle…

Most fires burn through their fuel in a few hours, days or weeks. When underground fossil fuel deposits catch alight, however, the fires can rage for decades.

The Darvaza Gas Crater, also known as the ‘Gates of Hell’, is a 60m-wide (196ft) pit in Turkmenistan’s Karakum Desert, which has…

A sea lion named Ronan can now keep time with music as well as – and sometimes better than – people, according to a new study.

Ronan first made headlines more than a decade ago when she surprised scientists by nodding her head in time with music – a skill once believed to be uniquely…

The internet’s latest and absurd obsession is: who would win in a no-rules fight between 100 average human men and one adult male

Beginning on May 7, billions of people around they world will have their eyes fixed upon a single chimney. As per tradition, the 135 cardinal-electors gathering at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel to select…

Earlier this year, while boarding a flight out of Houston, Texas, I noticed my slightly overfilled, bulging backpack wouldn’t quite fit in the space between my feet. I bent down, trying to smoosh it…

Australian scientists have developed a shark skin-inspired film coating for aeroplanes, which they claim can reduce drag and save billions in

Mosquitoes have been found as far north as Shetland, according to a citizen science project which studied the insects.

Scientists at the

Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work in a Hyundai factory. The new version of the bot, evolved from the hydraulic Atlas model that’s been performing viral video demos since 2013, made its public debut last spring. But while the company’s…

When people find out we study chimpanzees, they usually ask about their dark side. “You know chimpanzees kill each other, right?” or…