Category: 7. SciTech

Blue sharks have become very well known for the color of their skin, but new research indicates that these iconic sharks might be more than meets the eye. In fact, blue sharks might just be one of nature’s best chameleons, as new data suggests the components responsible for the…

NASA has been slowly working the Parker Solar Probe closer and closer to the Sun ever since its launch in 2018. The probe, which is heralded as the fastest object humans have ever made, has broken several records along the way. Now, it looks like NASA has used the probe to take the…

Matching your exercise routine to your personality could be the key to sticking with your workout plan, a new study has found.

The research, led by Prof Flaminia Ronca at the University College London, found that people who enjoy their exercise are more likely to stick with it, meaning…

A new treatment could revolutionise back pain treatment by targeting its root cause – inflammatory ‘zombie’ cells – according to recent research on mice.

A team of scientists, led by researchers at McGill University, Canada, discovered that a combination of two drugs, o-Vanillin and RG-7112,…

When a volcano is dormant, it typically doesn’t tend to make much noise. However, the Iliamna Volcano in Alaska is defying what we thought we knew about volcanos by rumbling despite being marked dormant for over a century.

According to a report from ABC News, scientists claim that the…

A huge and “incredibly rare” chunk of Mars that crash-landed in the Sahara will go on sale for nearly $2m at auction.

Sotheby’s in New…

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets, and in your drink as you cool off from the summer heat. However, under the microscope, not all ice is the same, even though it is made of the same components.

The internal structure of Earth’s…

Plastic can take a long time to break down and decompose. Combine that with the fact that plastic is being found everywhere and microplastics have even been found in the human body, and you have quite the recipe for disaster. Now, it turns out the situation is even worse than we…

Scour the internet and you’ll find many adorable videos of dogs who have seemingly learned to ‘talk’ to their owners, by pressing electronic buttons, preprogrammed to say certain words, called soundboards.

There’s Copper the labrador, who pushes the ‘Copper’ and ‘eat’ buttons…

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable shifts in Earth’s poles. The data shows that it has even led to a small but significant…