Category: 7. SciTech

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email A female-centric order has been discovered for the first time in European prehistory after scientists analysed DNA from a set of burial grounds… Continue Reading

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Scientists have discovered hidden structures underneath Milan’s fifteenth-century Sforza Castle, hinting at the presence of secret… Continue Reading

Octopuses tend to keep secrets, but we’ve just learnt how they achieve their extraordinary dexterity. The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation of the nervous system circuitry that governs it. This discovery… Continue Reading

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Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Radiation-induced mutations may not be the reason for the genetic differences between dog populations living near the Chernobyl nuclear power… Continue Reading

Octopuses tend to keep secrets, but we’ve just learnt how they achieve their extraordinary dexterity. The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation of the nervous system circuitry that governs it. This discovery… Continue Reading

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email Archaeologists have discovered that the famed monument of Rujm el-Hiri in the Golan Heights, popularly called “Stonehenge of the East”, has… Continue Reading

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Earthquakes are some of the most devastating catastrophes our planet can unleash, yet we are still all-too-often taken by surprise when one strikes. New research has revealed details of the lead-up to a tremor: a slow and steady period of displacements at a well-defined stress point in… Continue Reading

In 2022, staff from Hanoi University purchased a selection of ‘supergiant’ isopods at a seaford market in Quy Nhơn City in Vietnam, intrigued by a burgeoning market for the deep sea crustaceans as a delicacy. Among them was a species unknown to science at the time. National University of… Continue Reading