Category: 7. SciTech

As dawn broke over San Juan Island, a team of scientists stood on the deck of a barge and unspooled over a mile of fibre optic cable into the…

A tiny animal with an extraordinary ability could teach us how to regenerate lost or damaged body parts.

A beheading is lethal for most animals, but not for the flatworm. Chop its head off, and it will simply grow back. The disembodied head, too, can grow itself a whole new body in a matter…

Is there a reason aliens are ghosting us? Maybe they are bored of trying? That’s the latest theory from scientists who suggest that, contrary…

Ever seen a weevil unfurl its wings on a grain of rice? Photographer Zhang You from China has. In fact, he captured the moment in extraordinary detail – and the image has just been named the winner of this year’s Nikon Small World competition. It shows the tiny agricultural pest perched on…

They look like tiny monkeys peering out from the mist. Known to scientists as Dracula, the so-called “monkey-face orchids” have become…

Eye-tracking technology can provide a cheaper alternative to diagnosing a genetic tendency towards Alzheimer’s disease than “expensive and…

In the closing moments of Monday’s flight, Starship flexed its flaps to perform a “dynamic banking maneuver” over the Indian Ocean, then flipped upright and fired its engines to slow for splashdown, simulating maneuvers the rocket will execute on future missions returning to the launch…

The most extensive dinosaur trackways ever discovered in Europe have been uncovered at an Oxfordshire quarry, stunning…

Hidden beneath farmland in the central tablelands of New South Wales lies one of Australia’s most extraordinary fossil sites – McGraths Flat. It dates back between 11 million and 16 million years into the Miocene epoch, a time when many of today’s familiar plants and animals evolved.

It is…