Category: 7. SciTech

The cause of death of two young pterosaurs that had baffled researchers has been revealed by paleontologists in Germany in what they have…

Dinosaur life wasn’t all peaches and cream before the Chicxulub asteroid struck Earth. Some were plagued by much smaller dangers long before.

A new study has found evidence that a potentially deadly bone disease endangered the lives of numerous long-necked dinosaurs in what is now Brazil,…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Hard problems are usually not a welcome sight. But cryptographers love them. That’s because certain hard math problems underpin the security of modern encryption. Any clever trick for solving them will doom most forms of…

The liquid state of matter requires a relatively narrow range of temperature and pressure to exist. Put simply, as pressure is lowered, the boiling and freezing (or melting) points of matter begin to converge.

In space, where the pressure is essentially (but not quite) zero, these transition…

A total lunar eclipse “blood moon” should be visible for much of England and Wales on Sunday night as clear skies are forecast.

The moon is…

Wayne Gramlich was there at the very beginning of the Internet. While still in high school in the mid-1970s, the now 69-year-old managed to…

Human life is facing one of the biggest challenges in its history. Rampant climate change, driven by industrial activity, threatens our entire civilisation. The destabilised currents, intensifying heat waves and increasingly frequent storms are a danger to all of us.

The undisputed solution is…