Category: 7. SciTech

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Scientists have celebrated a surprising discovery about pterosaurs – the… Continue Reading

Most of us don’t know how our food is made. We don’t know much about what our burger ate when it was part of a cow, where that cow lived, or how it died. Ditto for the wheat in our bread, or the leaves in our salad. The food system is mostly a black box…

The best of Voices delivered to your inbox every week – from controversial columns to expert analysis Sign up for our free weekly Voices newsletter for expert opinion and columns Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter A hoard of ancient coins unearthed by amateur metal detectorists on the

Toward the end of last year, US health authorities got a tip-off about an upcoming wave of respiratory syncytial virus, a seasonal virus that kills 160,000 people globally every year. Before hospitals reported an uptick in patients, they could see that RSV was more acute in the northeast of the… Continue Reading

Carina Marquez, an associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, is a big believer in prevention. So she was delighted when, last year, health authorities in the US and Europe approved the first vaccines for respiratory syncytial virus. RSV vaccines hold the… Continue Reading

To make the perfect scoop of ice cream, you first need a dairy base—its natural proteins, fat, and sugar provide the rich, distinct mouthfeel. Heavy cream is added, further smoothing the texture. The introduction of sugar isn’t just for sweetness: like scattering salt on snow, it lowers the… Continue Reading

Sleep: there’s a fairly good chance you’re not getting enough. Whether due to the likes of stress, caffeine or late-night doom-scrolling, 1 in 3 people are reportedly not getting enough sleep, according to US figures. Some of these people will have insomnia, a clinical condition with an… Continue Reading

Scientists have found evidence of antimatter in cosmic rays that might suggest the existence of a class of never-before-observed particles. These particles could make up dark matter – the strange substance that accounts for 85 per cent of the Universe’s mass but has never been observed… Continue Reading

A new type of drug-free nasal spray could be a great defense against Covid-19, the common cold, and other viruses and bacterial illnesses. The spray was designed by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The goal of the spray was to… Continue Reading

NASA has finally turned off one of Voyager 2’s science instruments. Now, there’s no need to worry, as Voyager 2 isn’t shutting down anytime soon. However, since the probe has been barreling through space since 1977, its power supply—which is made up of chunks of plutonium—has… Continue Reading