Category: 7. SciTech

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is terminating $420 million in contracts, the space agency says are “misaligned” with…

A man who was fully paralyzed is now able to stand after receiving an injection of reprogrammed stem cells into his injured spinal cord. The result, announced by researchers in Japan, marks a rare and powerful moment in a field where progress has been cautious and uncertain.

The…

Over the course of his Harvard doctoral studies, Rob Devlin must have made 100 of a new kind of mini-lens, experimenting with materials and prototyping new designs to bend light like a traditional camera only using a series of tiny pillars on a millimeter-thin wafer.

This new device would be…

The way young people have been worshipping at the church of protein recently, you’d have thought its priest was Andrew Scott.

For instance, two in five parents of American 13- to 17-year-olds said their kids had eaten protein supplements such as bars, shakes and powders in the last year,…

Skywatchers across the northeastern United States, eastern Canada and parts of Europe are in for a rare astronomical treat this spring. On the morning of Saturday 29 March 2025, a partial solar eclipse will grace the skies – and for some lucky observers, it will coincide with a dramatic…

Scientists might soon be able to forecast when the see is gonna turn red – and don’t worry, it has nothing to do with the apocalypse.

For the…

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A remarkable Iron Age hoard, unearthed in a Yorkshire field, is prompting archaeologists to reassess the wealth and power dynamics of northern…

Scientists have discovered that an imbalance of certain chemicals in the brain could help explain why teenage girls are at greater risk of depression than boys.

Specifically, researchers claimed to have identified the role of a chemical called tryptophan. Tryptophan is an essential amino acid…