Category: 7. SciTech

The verdict is mixed on digital books, sometimes called ebooks, when it comes to fostering children’s reading development.

“Ebooks are a lot busier than print books,” said Assistant Professor of Education Ying Xu, who studies the effects of technologies, including AI, on children’s…

If you were wandering around Earth’s floodplains 415 million years ago, you wouldn’t have come across any other mammals – but you would have had to be wary of a giant scorpion measuring more than a meter (3.3 feet) in length.

After an extensive new fossil study, researchers in the UK have…

A longevity startup has dosed its first patient with a drug to reverse age-related sight loss.

Life Biosciences is testing its ER-100 drug, which the company claims has restored vision in monkeys, for safety and side effects in a study of around 18 adults over the next year.

It will be targeting…

At the world’s southernmost reaches, the land is buried under a layer of ice that can reach thousands of meters thick.

Whatever lies underneath has lain concealed for millions of years – an ancient landscape of towering mountains and plunging chasms, lost below a frozen sea of white.

Decades…