Category: 7. SciTech

When we think of things that conduct electricity, we usually picture copper wires or high-tech circuits, not living organisms. But researchers have just discovered something that flips that assumption on its head: a newly identified species of bacteria that runs electricity through its…

Italian scientists have discovered how to get a perfectly creamy pasta sauce every time, by analysing the physics involved in cooking cacio e pepe.

Cacio e pepe – meaning ‘cheese and pepper’ – is an Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino romano cheese and black pepper.

That may seem like…

American nuclear is in 25-year-old Isaiah Taylor’s blood: his great-grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project. In 2023, Taylor, who dropped out of high school to work in tech, started his own nuclear company, Valar Atomics. It’s currently developing a small test reactor, named after…

Scientists in the United States have ‘blown the lid off’ the Yellowstone supervolcano’s mysterious underground reservoir of magma.

A team of geologists and Earth scientists now claims to have finally found the deep magma ‘cap’ that keeps the volcanic system’s high pressures and temperatures…

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilization – believed to be the oldest in the world.

Ongoing investigations…

Urban noise such as from traffic, aeroplanes and construction is forcing some spiders to weave “soundproof webbing” that transmits…

As the US struggles to contain its worst measles outbreak in years, cases have spilled over into Mexico. In an April 25 report, Mexico’s Ministry of Health reported there have been 583 confirmed cases in the country this year, with 560 recorded in the border state of Chihuahua. On April 27,…

Scientists have identified two new species of crocodiles in the Caribbean off the Yucatán Peninsula – and both are already threatened by…

A runaway sausage dog named Valerie has been captured after a 529-day adventure, transfixing Australia as she roamed an island teeming with kangaroos, possums, koala bears and penguins.

The miniature dachshund had eluded searchers on Kangaroo Island since November 2023, only rarely appearing…