Category: 7. SciTech

Archaeologists have confirmed that a “beautiful stone” picked up by a child in Israel’s Tel Azekah area is actually a Bronze Age scarab…

For many people, mornings don’t officially begin until the first sip of coffee. But while we might be picky about our beans or roast, a new study suggests we should be just as selective about how we brew it. New research says the brewing method could be quietly raising our…

Space isn’t just about exploration anymore. It’s about infrastructure. And the US Space Force is getting ready to test space gas stations, a key part of that future infrastructure.

The Space Force recently revealed that it plans to launch two missions designed to test whether…

Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) were notified that they were subject to a reduction in force on Tuesday as part of a devastating purge of federal employees carried out by US Health and Human…

If you have lower levels of a type of cholesterol nicknamed ‘bad’ cholesterol in your blood, you may be less likely to develop dementia – and vice versa.

That’s according to a recent Korean study published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.

Experts know that…

Clouds usually come in chaotic, shifting forms that look like cotton balls, dragons, or even your favorite cartoon character if you squint just right. But in 2014, NASA’s Terra satellite captured a near-perfect circle of clouds hovering above the Pacific Ocean.

Spotted a few thousand…

One night in May 2022, two astrophotographers camping near Lake Puma Yumco in Tibet caught something extraordinary on film: bursts of glowing red lightning dancing in the sky. These weren’t UFOs or camera glitches, though, they were red sprites, a rare form of upper-atmosphere…

Deep-sea anglerfish have a very weird way of mating. Tiny males bite onto the much bigger females and in some species, his body tissues fuse with hers.

The male effectively turns into a sack of sperm hanging onto the female, ready for her to use whenever she needs to fertilise her eggs.

Female…

The use of antibiotics in livestock farming has transformed the industry over recent decades, fuelling productivity gains as agriculture races to keep up with a growing global population and rising demand for animal-source foods.

These drugs, once hailed as miracle cures, help keep animals…

Archaeologists in China have found stone technology previously thought to have been used by Neanderthals in Europe, challenging our…