Category: 7. SciTech

What was meant to be a triumphant crewed test flight for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft nearly became a catastrophe. And new revelations from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams show the mission, which launched in June 2024, faced far more serious issues than the agency…

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye show herbivores and carnivores drank from freshwater lagoons together 167 million…

Smokers are increasingly unconvinced of the benefits of switching to e-cigarettes, or ‘vaping’ – using an electronic device to heat a liquid that contains nicotine and inhaling the vapour (as opposed to breathing in the smoke from burning tobacco).

Last year, over a third of smokers

Archaeologists digging under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have found signs of an ancient garden that align with biblical…

Today, the Sahara Desert is one of the most inhospitable places on our planet. But it wasn’t always this way. 

Roll the clock back 7,000 years, and the Sahara was a lush, green savannah, teeming with wildlife, dotted with lakes – including one the size of modern-day Germany. It was, in…

Endometriosis is a common condition where cells similar to those in the lining of the womb grow in other parts of the body.

It affects around 10 per cent of women, and up to 50 per cent of women who are infertile, and can have a significant impact on their quality of life. Yet, it remains very…

This is a non-exhaustative list of places microplastics have been found: Mount Everest, the Mariana Trench, Antarctic snow, clouds, plankton, turtles, whales, cattle, birds, tap water, beer, salt, human plancentas, semen, breast milk, feces, testicles, livers, brains, arteries, and blood.

My…

axolotls are critically endangered. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, these aquatic monsters—a national symbol that features on Mexico’s 50 peso bills, and which were once considered divine entities, the “twins” of the Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl—are at “extremely…

The devastating magnitude 7.7 earthquake, which struck Myanmar on Friday, killing over 2,800 people and leaving thousands more injured, was…

Archaeologists have confirmed that a “beautiful stone” picked up by a child in Israel’s Tel Azekah area is actually a Bronze Age scarab…