Category: 7. SciTech

The Roman-era skeleton of a young woman once believed to have belonged to the earliest known black Briton is likely to have originated in…

Italian centenarians have a higher proportion of DNA inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers compared to the general population, according to a…

It’s one of the worst nightmares facing epidemiologists: that the bird flu virus rampaging through poultry farms around the world could make…

In the 1993 blockbuster film Jurassic Park, scientists brought dinosaurs back into existence by extracting their DNA from blood sucked by…

It began with some intriguing scientific discoveries.

A team of researchers from the Broad Institute and Harvard began to suspect nearly two decades ago that so-called “emerging diseases” such as Ebola and Lassa virus were not quite what they seemed. Rather than being newly evolved…

Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and build relationships….

A teenage boy who lived more than 6,000 years ago was able to survive a lion attack and live for several months afterwards, a new study has…

The Arctic Ocean current is at its warmest in the last 125,000 years, and temperatures continue to rise. Due to these warming temperatures, more than two-thirds of polar bears are expected to be extinct by 2050, with total extinction predicted by the end of this century.

But in our new study,…

The Lyrids’ radiant, the constellation Hercules, rises well before midnight, so meteors are visible all night, but are most likely to be seen just before dawn, when the radiant reaches its highest point in the sky.

The Eta Aquariids (May)

The Eta Aquariids are active approximately from mid-April…