Category: 7. SciTech

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A cave site unearthed in Laos has provided evidence of one of the earliest… Continue Reading

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter People in the UK should “look to the west” to spot Comet A3, an… Continue Reading

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Someone’s DNA is simply an instruction manual for who they are and is not… Continue Reading

Working out and exercising are great ways to help build up your body and push various processes within it in the direction they need to go. However, getting everyone up and exercising the way they need to isn’t always easy. That’s why scientists are working to develop a workout… Continue Reading

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For a molecule of RNA, the world is a dangerous place. Unlike DNA, which can persist for millions of years in its remarkably stable, double-stranded form, RNA isn’t built to last—not even within the cell that made it. Unless… Continue Reading

Icy winds howl across a frozen Thames, ice floes block shipping in the Mersey docks, and crops fail across the UK. Meanwhile, the US east coast has been inundated by rising seas and there’s ecological chaos in the Amazon as the wet and dry season have switched around… The world has been… Continue Reading

Highly reactive complex molecules finding some sort of stability was a necessary step towards life getting started on Earth. Scientists think they’ve just discovered how these first began to stay intact and spark the journey towards organisms. We haven’t been able to explain how the simple… Continue Reading

Highly reactive complex molecules finding some sort of stability was a necessary step towards life getting started on Earth. Scientists think they’ve just discovered how these first began to stay intact and spark the journey towards organisms. We haven’t been able to explain how the simple… Continue Reading