Category: 7. SciTech

In a world chasing cleaner energy, a group of physicists may have uncovered a surprising new way to make power: by tapping into the Earth’s own rotation. That’s right, researchers at Princeton University have finally shown that passive electricity generation might be more than just…

Never cut a worm in half lengthways. It’ll most definitely not regenerate or, indeed, survive. Should a worm accidentally be sliced widthways, however, perpendicular to the length of its body, it might well live to wriggle another day.

“Most have some powers of regeneration,” says Emma…

Hair loss affects millions, yet treatments remain frustratingly complex. Some require a daily commitment, others have side effects—and many simply don’t work for everyone. But scientists may have uncovered a simple hair loss cure that’s been hiding in plain sight: sugar.

Not just…

It’s believed that e-cigarettes have helped millions of people quit smoking in the UK alone, but that doesn’t mean they’re good for you.

Vapes may contain less nicotine, tar and other harmful substances compared to combustible cigarettes, but they’re still linked to long-term health…

Three-quarters of U.S. scientists say they’re considering leaving the country following moves to slash scientific programs by the Trump…

A colossal iceberg the size of Chicago has broken from a floating glacier in Antarctica, and like a retractable roof at a stadium, the drifting structure has opened up a hidden habitat to the elements.

Researchers working on a ship in the region in early 2025 quickly hurried to the newly…

Those are pretty stringent constraints, so it wasn’t obvious that the extra memory could ever prove useful. But to their surprise, Buhrman and Cleve showed that if you tweak bits in just the right way, you really can get extra computational oomph out of a full memory.

“That was a shocker for…

A new archaeological discovery at Kach Kouch in Morocco challenges the long-held belief that the Maghreb (north-west Africa) was an empty land…

It takes more than a year for the postpartum body to settle to its new normal after giving birth – much longer than a three-month ‘fourth trimester’.

That’s according to a recent study by biologists at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Helen Schneider Women’s Hospital in Israel, and…

The urge to become invisible goes back a long way. Hunters and soldiers have been finding ways to camouflage themselves for centuries, but scientists are edging closer to truly making things invisible.

Modern stealth tech can not only shield planes from radar, but can also conceal high heat…