Category: 7. SciTech

A new exhibition offers a glimpse into the unusual and sometimes bizarre medical practices of the Middle Ages.

The Cambridge University Library…

Skywatchers around the country will be able to see a partial solar eclipse this weekend.

While not as rare as a total solar eclipse, the…

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.

Researchers in the UK have now suggested in a report that is yet to be peer reviewed that there’s a very good reason these oddities…

After more than a decade of scanning the stars, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has officially gone silent. The Gaia shutdown marks the end of a groundbreaking mission but not the end of its legacy.

Launched in 2013, Gaia set out to create the most detailed map of…

Feeling stressed? That’s not surprising. The modern world, with its relentlessly breaking bad news and always-on communication, is more or less set up to keep us on edge. 

But there’s a problem: our bodies are built for fight or flight, not fearmongering and Facebook notifications. We’re…

Lots of strange things happened in 2023. But one thing (arguably the most notable thing to happen that year) went largely unnoticed. For the first time since the 1980s, the number of people with obesity in the US decreased.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the obesity rate…

“You lose most of the heat from your head,” the saying goes. But is this actually accurate? This myth likely stems from a US Army Field Manual that stated 40–45 per cent of heat loss occurs through the head. 

Scientists explained that if this were true, you would be just as cold wearing a…

Three storms which battered the nation within the space of a week leaving 1.4 million households without electricity were caused by a…

President Donald Trump is once again peddling a largely unfounded claim that wind energy is driving whales crazy.

“You know, in one area, they…

New archaeological research is revealing that, more than a thousand years before Britain became part of the Roman Empire, it was part of an…