Category: 7. SciTech

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this theory, oceanic water rushed faster than a speeding car down a kilometre-high slope towards the empty Mediterranean Sea, excavating a skyscraper-deep…

The soil under our feet is teeming with mysterious life forms – possibly more than any other habitat on Earth.

Scientists have now identified a whole new phylum of bacteria, which is abundant and widespread in the “dark forest” of our planet’s deep soils.

The candidate phylum, called Continue Reading

For the first time, a human child has been born thanks to an IVF process powered almost entirely by artificial intelligence. Conceivable Life Sciences is the biotech company behind the AI IVF system, and it has developed a fully automated system that handles nearly every step of…

Scientists can study how the human brain and body deal with information that people are likely to experience as distressing. We show test subjects a barrage of images or words designed to burden their nervous systems – exactly the sort of stuff we all encounter daily in the news (in fact, some…

Vitamin K – a nutrient we mainly get from green vegetables – might be crucial for protecting our brains against cognitive decline.

According to a new study from Tufts University, US, the vitamin may be particularly useful for maintaining cells in the hippocampus, the memory centre of the…

The future of climate tech could come not from a lab but from a lake. That’s because scientists are exploring using methane-eating bacteria to fight the constant methane emissions found at landfills.

Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases on Earth. It traps over 80 times…

One of space science’s longest-standing puzzles may finally have an answer. Scientists say they’ve figured out why carbon-rich asteroids – which are common in space – almost never make it to Earth’s surface.

The findings, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, could reshape our…

Somewhere between 9,500 and 9,900 years ago, three Scandinavian teenagers were hanging out, chewing gum after a meal. Specifically, they were chewing pitch or tar made from the bark of birch trees….

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar. According to this…