Category: 7. SciTech

The trees are talking to each other. But it doesn’t happen all the time.

They appear to be able to pass down their ecological knowledge from…

Lightning is one of nature’s most destructive forces, responsible for killing millions of trees every year. But in the rainforests of Panama, one species has flipped that danger into a powerful advantage.

The towering tonka bean tree (Dipteryx oleifera) doesn’t just survive…

Billionaire and SpaceX founder Elon Musk is continuing to push his outlandish plan to save humanity from extinction by…

Cuttlefish are strange animals with some strange means of communication. Now, these cephalopods have been recorded using their arms in a way that looks like they are gesturing to each other – adding a potentially previously unknown form of communication to their toolkit.

What’s even more…

In most of the United States, spring’s bird migration is in full swing. Thousands of species are trekking thousands of miles across the continent, laying eggs, nesting, and taking advantage of the…

A killer fungus is set to spread through new parts of Europe due to rising temperatures, according to new climate change research.

Aspergillus,…

Archaeologists have unearthed a “very rare” Roman-era horse cemetery in Germany containing the skeletons of over a hundred horses and that…

Jessica Frick wants to build furnaces in space. Her company, California-based Astral Materials, is designing machines that can grow valuable materials in orbit that could be used in medicine, semiconductors, and more. Or, as she puts it, “We’re building a box that makes money in space.”

Ukrainian farmland abandoned after the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster is again fit for agriculture, a new study reveals.

In the aftermath of…

A field in the Scottish countryside near the Solway Firth was likely the world’s oldest football pitch, a historian has claimed.

The field was…