Category: 7. SciTech

Stone Age Ireland was likely not ruled over by incestuous “god-kings” 5500 years ago, as previously thought, a team of archaeologists has…

Admit it: you’re currently feeling somewhere between uncomfortably warm and on the verge of spontaneously combusting. Not that we’re judging, mind. This week, temperatures are soaring in the UK and many parts of the US are experiencing a heatwave.

Inevitably, this heat has created a work…

Researchers have raised “urgent concerns” after discovering two new bat viruses in China with the potential to infect humans and cause…

Within a tiny plankton, an even smaller cell has been found living an unexpectedly virus-like existence, challenging what it means to be alive.

The line between living and inanimate has traditionally and controversially been drawn before viruses, and the newly discovered organism,…

Viruses rely on hosts to survive. But some viruses are more effective at reproducing than others. Now, new research has shown that the herpes virus, more specifically herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1), can change human DNA after less than an hour of infection.

According to a new study…

The first dazzling images have been released from the National Science Foundation and Department of Energy’s Vera C. Rubin Observatory,…

For decades, scientists have debated what’s beneath the Moon’s dusty surface. Now, new research has delivered some of the clearest evidence yet of what’s inside the Moon.

Using data from lunar laser-ranging experiments and various space missions, a team of researchers built a

As the planet closest to the Sun, Mercury has it rough. Not only is it the smallest planet in our solar system, but Mercury’s crust is also fractured and sheared in several places. There are also craters across the entire surface of the little planet. The origins of these shearing…

The Schmidt Pain Scale for Stinging Insects ranks the pain of insect stings on a scale of one to four.

On this scale, the sting of the Western honeybee scores a paltry two, while that of the red paper wasp and Klug’s velvet ant achieve a three. At four, however, is the sting of the South…

Researchers have discovered a new way to image the brain, and it has also led to a first for scientists. According to a new paper published this year, researchers at the University of Glasgow were able to beam light through a person’s head for the first time. The process is extremely…