Category: 7. SciTech

You know your field of research has hit the mainstream when it appears on The Kardashians, and so it was with mixed feelings that longevity scientists saw Khloé screaming with excitement as she opened the results of a biological age test on the show. Khloé is chronologically 40, but her…

The best inventions solve practical solutions to everyday problems, doing so efficiently and with a bit of style. But sometimes things don’t exactly work out like this. Sometimes inventions can appear rather strange, either because they attempt to solve problems that do not exist, or they…

As we get older, our learning and memory functions diminish – and we now know the protein that’s responsible for making this happen.

Researchers at UC San Francisco have identified the culprit – an iron-associated protein known as FTL1 – whose effects impair our cognition throughout…

After the ordeal of trying to lose weight, the last thing you want is for it all the extra pounds to come creeping back a few months later.

But that scenario is very common. The data suggests the odds of keeping lost weight off are against you. Studies of thousands of people over decades show…

In the 1999 animated film, Toy Story 2, Buzz Lightyear and his fellow sentient playthings enter an airport’s…

Scientists have identified a previously unknown seismic phenomenon that was likely responsible for Europe’s largest recorded earthquake that…

The word ‘habits’ gets thrown around a lot. Your GP encourages you to get into the ‘good habit’ of eating five portions of fruit and veg a day; your friend worries about their ‘bad habit’ of checking Twitter before bed; maybe you once had a music teacher who kept on at you to practise…

A new kind of targeted therapy to treat head and neck cancer in cats could hold the key to developing similar treatments in humans, according…

A newly uncovered medieval document is the earliest known to suggest that the Shroud of Turin, widely believed to have been used to wrap…

On the evening of September 7, the second (and final) total lunar eclipse of the year will take place—serving up the striking sight of a red “blood moon” in the sky across much of the world.

Total lunar eclipses occur when the Earth is positioned between the full moon and the sun, with the…