Category: 7. SciTech

Is coffee a health drink? While we’ve seen some interesting and often polarizing reports about just how healthy coffee is over the years, one thing appears to remain clear: there are some health benefits to drinking coffee. However, researchers say that just how good or bad it is for…

And because methane is invisible and odorless, it can be difficult and expensive to monitor it and prevent it from getting out. As a result, researchers and environmental activists say the industry is likely releasing far more than official government estimates show.

Methane also seeps out from…

Cognitive decline refers to the slowing or dulling of our memory, concentration and ability to think. It’s quite common to become more forgetful as we age – failing to remember someone’s name, say, or what we set out to buy at the shops.

Increasingly frequent episodes might, though,…

In 2019, a radio telescope in Australia detected an interesting signal coming from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri, the closest star to Earth.

The signal, designated Breakthrough Listen Candidate 1 (BLC1), had all the hallmarks of a ‘technosignature’, a potential sign of intelligent life.

It…

As the UK swelters under yet another relentless heatwave, many residents are left pondering why these scorching days feel particularly unbearable compared to those experienced in other parts of the world. 

Despite sharing the same blazing sun and rising global temperatures, the heat in the UK…

The King has recorded a personal message for Antarctic researchers as the southern hemisphere marks the shortest day of the year.

While the UK…

The King has recorded a personal message for Antarctic researchers as the southern hemisphere marks the shortest day of the year.

While the UK…

Earth has not always been so hospitable to live. During several ice ages, the planet’s surface was almost completely frozen over, creating what has been dubbed “Snowball Earth”.

Liquid water appears to be the most important ingredient for life on any planet, raising the question: how did…

While it’s very true that, as the great Ian Malcolm once said, “life finds a way,” that way can sometimes veer quite far off the beaten path.

One of the most beautiful and strange examples of this is the Pacific barreleye fish (Macropinna microstoma), small fish that live in the twilit ocean…