Category: 7. SciTech

If you’ve ever seen an episode of Hot Ones, the YouTube series in which guests have to consume increasingly nuclear hot sauces…

For decades, beekeepers have fought a tiny parasite called Varroa destructor, which has devastated honey-bee colonies around the world. But an…

At a seminar on building cooling strategies in the late 1990s, I vividly remember hearing that “in 30 years’ time, the climate of London will…

When treating severe burns and trauma, skin regeneration can be a matter of life or death. Extensive burns are usually treated by transplanting a thin layer of epidermis, the top layer of skin, from elsewhere on the body. However, this method not only leaves large scars, it also does not restore…

Neuroscientists from around the world have worked in parallel to map, for the first time, the entire brain activity of mice while they were making decisions. This achievement involved using electrodes inserted inside the brain to simultaneously record the activity of more than half a million…

Chinese scientists claimed to have developed the world’s first “brain-like” artificial intelligence large language model similar to…

Drugs developed to reduce levels of a protein found at high levels in Alzheimer’s patients could lead to treatments to curb the disease…

At the WIRED Health summit on Tuesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the recent changes to Covid-19 vaccine policy made by Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. are a “step backward.”

Moderna is one of the manufacturers of mRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines, and last month…

Imagine doing your entire food shop at a butcher’s. No vegetables, no bread, no fruit, no pasta, mil or biscuits – just a trolley full of meat, fish, eggs and lard.

That’s the carnivore diet. Its gospel has been preached all over the internet – by fitness influencer Brian Johnson (aka…

In recent years, there has been a huge surge of interest in the link between our hearing and our chances of getting dementia.

Stories in the press have suggested that up to a third of dementia cases may be caused by hearing problems.

TV doctors are telling viewers that having a hearing test can…