Category: 7. SciTech

While humans typically favour a dominant hand, new research reveals that octopuses, despite lacking a single dominant arm, show a clear…

Octopuses are mostly made up of sucker-studded arms, each one packed with muscles and nerves that enable them to engage with their environment in ways no other invertebrate has mastered.

But how octopuses negotiate their sprawling mass of semi-autonomous limbs remains a mystery. A new study…

America’s foreign aid freeze could cause more than two million additional deaths from tuberculosis across the next five years, scientists…

Increased demand for food due to population growth, together with a reduction in suitable arable land, has made pesticides essential for…

The unusual DNA of a particular type of spider is fascinating scientists, as they think it may hold the key to diverse evolution…

Crispr gene-editing technology has demonstrated its revolutionary potential in recent years: It has been used to treat rare diseases, to adapt crops to withstand the extremes of climate change, or even to change the color of a spider’s web. But the greatest hope is that this technology will…

The excavation of an ancient burial in northern Latvia dating back over 5,000 years challenges long-held assumptions about the roles of women…

An unassuming butterfly called the Atlas blue has been confirmed to have the greatest known number of chromosome pairs of any animal.

The elusive species (Polyommatus atlantica), which is native to the mountains of North Africa, possesses as many as 229 pairs per cell.

To put that in…

How the Egyptian pyramids were built has long been a mystery. Constructed as tombs for the pharaohs over 4,000 years ago, more than 100 of them remain. The largest one, the Great Pyramid of Giza, was originally 147m tall (482ft).

It’s made up of about 2.3 million stone blocks, each weighing…

“The metal tiles … didn’t work so well,” he said. “They oxidized extremely nice in the high oxygen environment. So, that nice orange color, kind of like a [space] shuttle external tank color, maybe paying homage to the shuttle program, was created by those three little metal tiles up…