Category: 7. SciTech

Imagine you’re in south-east Cape York Peninsula, heading north from the tiny town of Laura – population 133.

You’re in a dusty four…

Archaeologists have identified more than a dozen ancient canoes, seemingly left by Indigenous communities, in what has been described as a…

I was settling into one of those airport activity tables with high stools and electric outlets at my flight’s gate, waiting for the agent to announce boarding, when I felt a gathering storm at the apex of my butt cheeks. This was my last flight after being away from home on a book tour in May….

New data released on Thursday from the world’s largest study of blood molecules from thousands of volunteers could lead to finger-prick tests…

After the temporary shutdown of the US government, NASA has finally started its nonessential work back up. It’s starting off with a bang: The agency called a press conference to show its hitherto reserved images of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS. NASA scientists also confirmed that 3I/ATLAS is…

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has made another strange discovery.

While investigating the Vernodden area of Jezero Crater – the crater…

At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the ocean’s surface off the coast of Alaska, where the warm light of the Sun never penetrates, an NOAA Ocean Exploration remotely operated underwater vehicle came across a strange, golden orb.

The bizarre undersea object, encountered during a 23-day…

Imagine throwing up after a bad burrito – only for that heave to reveal the existence of onions to scientists 110 million years in the future. That’s pretty much what just happened, as paleontologists describe a new species of pterosaur from remains found in fossilized dinosaur vomit.

The…

Humanity’s first kiss dates back 21 million years and our ape ancestors may have locked lips with Neanderthals, a study has found.

Although it…