Category: 7. SciTech

King cobras are spreading to different parts of India by hitching rides on some of the country’s busiest railway networks, a new study has…

If you’ve ever considered practicing meditation, you might believe you should relax, breathe, and empty your mind of distracting thoughts. Novices tend to think of meditation as the brain at rest, but a new international study concludes this ancient practice is quite the opposite: meditation is…

A space rocket company has announced plans to appoint administrators after failing to secure the funding it needed.

Orbex had been “on the…

For many animals that live in cold climates, winter means low-power mode. But no creature is more tied to the image of a long,…

The last common ancestor of all living things did not just suddenly appear on Earth roughly 4.2 billion years ago.

Some of its genes came from an even older and more mysterious source…

“While the last universal common ancestor is the most ancient organism we can study with evolutionary…

Out beyond the orbit of Neptune lies an expansive ring of ancient relics, dynamical enigmas, and possibly a hidden planet—or two.

The Kuiper Belt, a region of frozen debris about 30 to 50 times farther from the sun than the Earth is—and perhaps farther, though nobody knows—has been shrouded…

Japanese scientists have finally decoded the genetic mechanisms behind the boom of radioactive pig-boar hybrids in Fukushima’s abandoned…

Geologists have mapped a strange magnetic anomaly in Australia – and in a stunning coincidence, it happens to look remarkably like the continent it lurks beneath.

The anomaly seems to feature its own version of Queensland’s point in the north, reaches its widest section in the middle, and…

Two stone altars, unearthed at a Roman fort near Edinburgh and now acquired for the nation, will make their public debut in a new…