Category: 7. SciTech

You may have heard of ‘fibremaxxing’. The recent health trend has been popularised on social media platforms like TikTok and involves people increasing their daily fibre intake dramatically – often well beyond the recommended amount of 25–30g (0.9–1oz) per day – with the aim of…

Our brains glow. We can’t see it happen with the naked eye, but scientists can measure extremely subtle light passing through the skull – and a recent study has found that this light changes depending on what we’re doing.

All living tissue emits a faint light called ultraweak photon…

Thunderstorm safety often comes down to some common sense. Do not go outside or stand under a tree during a thunderstorm. Seek…

A new combination of drugs, including a compound present in chocolate, can treat several influenza strains, including bird and swine flu, a new…

A pair of lungs preserved over a century ago from a deceased Spanish flu patient has helped unravel the genetic adaptations undergone by the

Not all giant meat-eating dinosaurs were the terrifying, bone-crushing predators we imagine. 

A new study published in the journal Current Biology has found that while many theropods – the group of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex, Spinosaurus and Allosaurus –…

“There’s now policy certainty that we didn’t have before,” she adds. “Last but not least, the private sector is not only interested in using space nuclear power, they’re even interested in providing space nuclear power.” Both startups and established aerospace companies like Boeing…

You might want to reconsider that…

Despite being roughly half their size, female gorillas can, and frequently do, overpower male gorillas when competing for status and resources, according to a recent study.

This discovery challenges the traditional belief that gorilla society is strongly patriarchal – characterised by male…

Humans may have crossed mainland Southeast Asia to occupy surrounding islands much earlier than previously thought, according to a new study…