Category: 7. SciTech

Archaeologists digging under the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem have found signs of an ancient garden that align with biblical…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

The warming spring air is a welcome relief from the bitterly cold winter across much of the US, but millions of seasonal allergy sufferers are getting buried under a pollen tsunami, with sneezing, headaches,…

Uniformed guards with holstered guns stand at the entrance and watch you lumber past. Ahead lies a wasteland of barren metal gantries, dormant chimney stacks and abandoned equipment.

You trudge towards the ruins of a large, derelict red-brick building. Your white hazmat suit and heavy…

Uniformed guards with holstered guns stand at the entrance and watch you lumber past. Ahead lies a wasteland of barren metal gantries, dormant chimney stacks and abandoned equipment.

You trudge towards the ruins of a large, derelict red-brick building. Your white hazmat suit and heavy…

It was the morning of 24 September 2023 when a returning space capsule appeared in the skies over the US Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Floating down to Earth under a parachute was a single canister containing 121g (4.3oz) of material from the surface of an asteroid…

It was the morning of 24 September 2023 when a returning space capsule appeared in the skies over the US Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. Floating down to Earth under a parachute was a single canister containing 121g (4.3oz) of material from the surface of an asteroid…

A new material made of seawater, carbon dioxide, and electricity could give the construction industry a much-needed climate upgrade. Developed by researchers at Northwestern University, the paste-like substance offers a dual solution: a substitute for mined sand and a way to produce…

NASA has raised the odds that asteroid 2024 YR4, a fast-moving object roughly the size of a 10-story building, could hit the Moon in December 2032. While the chance is still small, the updated forecast does note an increased impact risk that the city-killer asteroid will strike the…

Four critically endangered Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoises have hatched for the first time in the Philadelphia Zoo’s 150-year history….

Recent research suggests the age of the Great Red Spot – the huge anticyclone vortex in Jupiter’s atmosphere – formed about 190 years ago. Scientists base this on historical measurements of the storm’s size and motion.

Although the Great Red Spot was first reported by Giovanni Cassini in…