Category: 7. SciTech

Ancient Egyptians and Etruscans pioneered orthodontics, using delicate gold wires and catgut to straighten teeth. It’s a tale that has…

It’s a classic Disney moment: Dumbo the elephant jumps out of a burning building, spreads out his huge ears and flies. While real…

If back pain can be reliably prevented, not only will quality of life be improved, but it will also directly lead to a reduction in health care costs for society as a whole. According to the research team, back pain is one of the most common health problems in Norway, with 60-80 percent of…

The spread of influenza became more severe this fall, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has designated the 2024-25 flu season as the most severe season since 2017-18. In the UK, the spread has begun earlier than at any…

Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s earliest intentional cremation of an adult human known till date in Malawi, a discovery that raises…

A company is pioneering forest regeneration using the “superpowers” of fungi, developing specially-made mushroom pellets.

Teams from Scottish…

Most of us try to be responsible global citizens while we’re alive. We sort recyclables. We avoid fast fashion. We try to be good…

The fruit of Africa’s marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen that never fades.

Only the berries aren’t actually blue in the sense most of us might assume. At least, they don’t contain any blue pigment. The cool hue is the result of…

An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up lakebed paved with what appears to be a yellow brick road.

The exploration vessel Nautilus discovered the eerie scene while surveying the Liliʻuokalani ridge in

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren’t safe from them in rivers either.

Researchers from Sweden, the US, and the Netherlands analyzed isotopes in several mosasaur teeth from sites across North Dakota,…