Category: 7. SciTech

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Scientists in Australia say a group of “unusually large” funnel-web spiders is actually a new species in its… Continue Reading

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

Minnesota is turning up the heat on nonstick cookware manufacturers with a groundbreaking PFAS ban. And it’s safe to say the industry isn’t taking it lying down. Dubbed “Amara’s Law,” it has outlawed the sale of products containing per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances… Continue Reading

We naturally detect lies all the time. It could be a dip in our partner’s voice alerting us to the fact that they’re concealing their emotions; a child’s eyes drifting back to the drawer containing a present they weren’t supposed to open; or an implausible story told by a colleague… 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 Stonehenge was built to unify ancient Britons during a “crisis” caused by migration from mainland Europe, researchers have suggested. More… 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 The U.S. government has scrapped its litigation against the company that owns the salvage rights to the Titanic. It notted that the firm no… Continue Reading

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Far above your head, constellations of satellites are working constantly to provide the positioning, navigation, and timing systems that quietly run modern life. Known as the global navigation satellite system, or GNSS, signals from these satellites provide the foundation for mobile networks,… 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 Many more supermassive black holes could be hiding in the universe than previously thought, according to a new study. Astronomers from the