Category: 7. SciTech

The fate of the cosmos may be a bit different than previously expected. For years, scientists have talked about how the universe is always expanding — constantly moving outward, never stopping. However, new research suggests that might not be the case at all, and that the universe…

Antimatter particles are almost identical to their normal matter counterparts, except they carry the opposite charge and momentum.

Though it’s an extremely rare substance, physicists routinely generate antiparticles in particle accelerators. Antimatter is also created naturally in high-energy…

Today’s machine learning technology has been shown to visualise our dreams. But what if we wished to go further and actually share our dreams?

At present, while we can interpret brain signals and roughly figure out imagined scenes and high-level thoughts, we have no way to transfer these into…

Chimpanzees are a musical lot, and percussion is an important part of their repertoire. But one particular behavior continues to fascinate zoologists: every so often, chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) are caught on camera, yelling and throwing rocks at a good, solid tree trunk, in what some have…

The enamel that forms the outer layer of our teeth might seem like an unlikely place to find clues about evolution. But it tells us more than…

A construction worker has unearthed a 1,500-year-old Byzantine tomb complex in the war-torn province of Idlib, northern Syria.

The discovery…

Planet Earth is currently home to around 8.2 billion living human bodies. Virtually every one of which, when you think about it, is basically a deconstructed meatball in some variation of Birkenstocks and a North Face jacket.

You didn’t think about it? Well, four years ago, a math enthusiast…

It’s no secret that Earth is doomed. Sure, there’s the threat of climate change and the fact that sea levels are rising around the world. But that’s not what we’re talking about. Instead, our planet’s impending doom is actually set to happen billions of years from now, long…

I am a geneticist, which, last time I checked, is a perfectly upstanding profession. I mean my mother-in-law still speaks to me, so that must be a good thing, right?

And yet, when I reveal that I study the genetics of body weight and that your genetics can be the driving cause of obesity, I…

Pluto might be small and distant, but it keeps surprising scientists. After the New Horizons spacecraft zipped past it in 2015, we got our first real look at its icy landscape and unexpectedly active atmosphere. But even with those discoveries, one question lingered in scientists’…