Category: 7. SciTech

For two centuries, scholars have sparred over the roots of the Piasts, Poland’s first documented royal house, who reigned from the 10th to…

Imagine you’re a copper miner in southeastern Europe in the year 3900 BCE. Day after day you haul copper ore through the mine’s sweltering tunnels.

You’ve resigned yourself to the grueling monotony of mining life. Then one afternoon, you witness a fellow worker doing something remarkable.

With…

You may have come across those “what I eat in a day” videos on social media, where people – usually conventionally attractive influencers wearing activewear – list everything they consumed that day.

They might seem like harmless fun but in fact they can reinforce dangerous ideas about…

A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it’s blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth.

The incoming blast of solar particles is worth getting excited about: we’re in for a moderate (G2) geomagnetic storm starting around Saturday June 14, according to…

After many hours of staring unblinking at a small patch of sky, JWST has given us the most detailed map ever obtained of a corner of the Universe.

It’s called the COSMOS-Web field, and if that sounds familiar, it’s probably because an incredible image of it dropped just a month ago. That,…

Appendix cancer is a condition that, until recently, was so rare that most people never gave it a second thought.

For decades, it was the kind of disease that doctors might encounter only once or twice in a career, and it was almost always found in older adults.

But now a surprising and…

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice as long as the Milky Way is wide.

Its host galaxy is a quasar called J1601+3102, and we’re seeing it as it was less than 1.2 billion years after the Big Bang. Spanning…

The universe is a big place, and while we’re still unraveling the mysteries of the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope has given us unprecedented looks at the cosmos around our little blue dot. Now, a massive trove of data from Webb has been released, including an…

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole have been captured by the robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

The European Space Agency (ESA)…

The European Space Agency has achieved yet another “first” for humankind by capturing the first photos of the Sun’s south pole. These images were captured by the agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft, and it gives us our first distinct look at the atmosphere of the Sun’s southern…