Category: 7. SciTech

For decades, small grooves on ancient human teeth were thought to be evidence of deliberate tool use – people cleaning their teeth with…

Astronomers have discovered a significant “growth spurt” in a rogue planet outside of our solar system.

The free-floating…

The gravitational lensing not only splits the light source, but magnifies it, allowing a detailed view of the light source behind the lens. Thanks to this, the team says that HerS-3 appears to be a bright starburst galaxy—a galaxy undergoing explosive star formation—and was formed at a time…

Pooches, puppers, doggos – all these words mean the same thing. And, now it appears that the dogs themselves can connect similar linguistic labels, according to a new study from Eötvös Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary.

This principle of “label extension” is a pillar of language…

From The Last of Us to The Thing, blockbuster movies and TV shows have been trying to warn the world not to dig into ancient ice, open the…

Losing weight could be as simple as replacing some of the sausages, beef and bacon in your diet with legumes, according to a recent study.

Scientists at the University of Helsinki instructed 51 Finnish men, aged 20 to 65, to reduce the amount of red and processed meat they were eating to just…

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) has fascinated stargazers for millennia – but now we can see it as never before. From the crystal-clear skies above the AstroCamp Observatory in Nerpio, Spain, three photographers have revealed its luminous core and star-studded spirals in extraordinary detail.

That…

A sudden growth spurt has led to a ‘rogue’ planet becoming the fastest-growing planet ever seen.

The planet unexpectedly began gorging on the gas surrounding it a few months ago and is now swallowing down six billion tonnes (2.2 trillion pounds) every second, according to a new study. That…