Category: 7. SciTech

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed to be the oldest in the world.

Ongoing…

Earth’s cycles of light and dark profoundly affect billions of organisms. Events such as solar eclipses are known to bring about marked shifts in animals, but do they have the same effect on plants?

During a solar eclipse in a forest in Italy’s Dolomites region, scientists seized the chance…

We’ve discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology.

This impact now aligns with some of Earth’s earliest known, land based, non-marine microbial fossils, and…

An unidentified skull uncovered at a Hungarian basilica decades ago may belong to the legendary 15th century king Matthias Corvinus, a new…

Deepfakes – videos where a person’s face or body has been digitally altered to mimic someone else – are getting disturbingly good: they now even have heartbeats.

This finding, detailed in a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Imaging, could render some of the most advanced…

We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots.

The forest made of a single tree known as Pando (“I spread” in Latin) has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared root…

When we think of things that conduct electricity, we usually picture copper wires or high-tech circuits, not living organisms. But researchers have just discovered something that flips that assumption on its head: a newly identified species of bacteria that runs electricity through its…

Italian scientists have discovered how to get a perfectly creamy pasta sauce every time, by analysing the physics involved in cooking cacio e pepe.

Cacio e pepe – meaning ‘cheese and pepper’ – is an Italian dish made with pasta, pecorino romano cheese and black pepper.

That may seem like…

American nuclear is in 25-year-old Isaiah Taylor’s blood: his great-grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project. In 2023, Taylor, who dropped out of high school to work in tech, started his own nuclear company, Valar Atomics. It’s currently developing a small test reactor, named after…

Scientists in the United States have ‘blown the lid off’ the Yellowstone supervolcano’s mysterious underground reservoir of magma.

A team of geologists and Earth scientists now claims to have finally found the deep magma ‘cap’ that keeps the volcanic system’s high pressures and temperatures…