Category: 7. SciTech

As Halloween draws near, images of burials gone wrong can easily become horror movie fare:  hands bursting from the ground; the…

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by the climate crisis, while more than half of the world’s bird species are in decline due…

Scientists have captured the first direct evidence of a bat catching and eating a bird in mid-air, confirming long-standing theories about the…

Shifting to a high-fibre diet can prevent, and even reverse, a common liver disease caused by dietary fructose, a new study has found.

Consuming…

A skeleton discovered on Dorset’s Jurassic coast has been identified as a new species of prehistoric marine reptile that once ruled the…

Cutting onions slowly and using the sharpest knives available can reduce eye irritation, physicists have found in a new study.

A familiar and…

The West Coast is years overdue for the next big earthquake.

When the colossal tremor eventually strikes, seismologists expect high-rises and…

There are more animal gamers than you might think. In California, for example, US Navy sea lions have been trained to navigate an on-screen cursor through a maze, using their snouts to press four buttons (up, down, left and right).

The sea lions, which the Navy uses to locate and recover objects…

What does the rise of artificial intelligence mean for humanity? That was the question at the core of “How is digital technology shaping the human soul?,” a panel discussion that drew experts from computer science to comparative literature last week.

The Oct. 1 event was the first from…