Category: 7. SciTech

We’re always learning more about our planet. From figuring out where life on Earth originated to exactly what lies beneath the Earth’s surface, there’s plenty we still don’t know about our little floating rock. However, researchers have found another piece of the puzzle…

What is the ekpyrotic Universe theory? Ekpyrotic cosmology is an alternative theory to the standard theory of cosmology, which is known as the Lambda-CDM, or ΛCDM model.

In the ΛCDM model, the remarkable flatness of the Universe requires a period of rapid ‘inflation’, which smooths out the…

Sea anemones may look alien, but scientists just found out they’re hiding an ancient body ‘blueprint’ – one that most animals, including humans, still follow. The discovery could shake up the timeline of evolution.

You might not be familiar with the term ‘bilaterian,’ although you are one….

In the works of Plato, a Greek philosopher who lived around 2,400 years ago, the island of Atlantis was said to have been drowned in the Atlantic Ocean after the hubris of its people angered the Gods.

Although Atlantis was fictional, the idea that entire civilisations can disappear beneath the…

The fight against climate change is ongoing, and while we’re still a long way from finding an actually sustainable solution, researchers at Yale say that imperfect climate models may actually be far more helpful than many think.

While the UN has warned time and again that we’re…

In an unexpected twist, a non-venomous spider has been caught poisoning its victims by lacing its silk wrappings with vomited toxins.

The feather-legged lace weaver (Uloborus plumipes), common across Europe and Africa, lacks venom glands on its head, so it was thought to be harmless. But…

Sharks are interesting creatures and among the most deadly lurking within the ocean. But what if I told you that sharks have a strange habit of freezing when you turn them upside down? That’s right. Sharks, one of the big bads of old-school movies like Jaws, actually suffer from a…

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to our limbs, eyes, liver and brain – have been assembled in fits and starts over the four billion years of our history.

But scientists are still puzzling over why we evolved into this particular…

In 2026, a team of astronauts will float inside a glossy white cylinder orbiting hundreds of kilometres above Earth.

They’ll gaze down at the planet through a 1.1-metre domed window, sleep in inflatable beds designed for zero gravity, and carry out experiments on the human body, plant growth…