Category: 7. SciTech

Recent excavations in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have revealed that some enslaved people, despite being considered mere “speaking…

If someone mentions criminal gangs, you might think of drug trafficking or financial crime. But one of the most persistent illegal trades in…

Changes to tiny structures in the brain that can be detected in MRI scans could serve as a potential early indicator of Alzheimer’s, a new…

The scars left on houses look like shotgun blasts, sometimes. In the aftermath of major storms, Andrew Shick, owner and chief executive of Illinois-based firm Roofing USA, has driven through suburbs blasted by hail and been left stunned by the damage.

Earlier this year, he visited a farm complex…

Scientists excavating the ancient Roman city of Pompeii have unearthed a construction site preserved exactly as it was when Mount Vesuvius…

An extreme close-up of the Australian rufous net-casting spider’s unique silk, captured by biologist Martín Ramírez and his colleagues, reveals in intricate detail the material qualities that make this spider’s net so effective.

The image is the winner of this year’s Royal Society…

Amy Lindberg settled quickly into life at Lejeune. She played tennis and ran on her lunch breaks, flitting through sprinklers in the turgid Carolina summers. But something dark was lurking beneath her feet.

Sometime before 1953, a massive plume of trichlorethylene, or TCE, had entered the…

A previously unknown early medieval settlement has been unearthed in Suffolk during preparatory work for an offshore wind farm.

Archaeologists…

Chemicals leaching from everyday plastic objects like baby bottles could be linked to behavioural changes in young children, a new study has warned.

Scientists…

Humans may be far more monogamous by nature than previously thought, researchers say.

Monogamy in humans is comparable more to the exclusive…