Category: 7. SciTech

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given.

But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too simple.

We present an unprecedented and intimate portrait…

If you’re looking for a workout to help you lose a few pounds, your first instinct might be to hit the gym.

But racking up the recommended 150 minutes of exercise a week that way is hard, especially when you’re squeezing it in around work, kids, a social life, and – let’s be real –…

The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. They already knew it could use oxygen, so they tested other combinations in the lab. When oxygen was absent, RSW1 could process hydrogen gas and elemental…

A 5,000-year-old cow’s tooth may offer fresh new evidence about how Stonehenge was built, hinting that cattle travelled with the monument’s stones from Wales to Wiltshire.

Using advanced isotope analysis, researchers studied a jawbone first unearthed at the ritualistically significant…

A human-occupied vehicle (HOV) probing the deep Pacific Ocean has cast a light upon a massive undersea ‘metropolis’.

The tortuous system of deep craters and dolomite walls blows the Atlantic Ocean’s famous ‘Lost City’ out of the water.

Through a curtain of falling marine ‘snow’, the ghostly…

Be honest for a second: we all tell lies from time to time, whether it’s fibbing about the reason we’re late or telling a loved one they look fab in that expensive new outfit when actually we think the opposite.

Research from the 1990s found that for most of us, this amounts to about one or…