Category: 7. SciTech

On 30 July at 12:25am BST (11:25am local time), a massive earthquake struck just off the coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia. With a magnitude of 8.8, the event was the sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, raising the spectre of a tsunami on the scale of the 2004 Indian Ocean…

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

Air conditioners have been working overtime this hot summer, from those tiny window units to the massive AC towers that serve the tightly packed apartment buildings in major cities. And while they bring the…

Cats who develop dementia-like symptoms in old age have similar changes in their brain to humans with Alzheimer’s, a new study has found. The findings could kick down the door to new research, possibly helping fuel the discovery of therapies for the notoriously difficult-to-treat…

My dog Pepper is an easygoing senior who loves bedtime. I’m sure his treat is part of it, but he also likes us all settling down for the night. He loves short walks, during which he gets to sniff a lot.

And he’s thrilled to see the horse that lives in a field nearby (he used to be afraid of…

Rocket science is hard. Famously so. Spacecraft have millions of components, each performing thousands of steps. A single mistake can jeopardise the entire mission.

Mission runners can’t simply dispatch a technician to Mars or the deep void of space to fix the problem if something goes wrong….

A new study has found that visceral fat – the hidden belly fat stored deep in the abdomen – can accelerate the ageing of your heart.

Unlike subcutaneous fat, which sits just below the skin, visceral fat surrounds organs including the stomach, liver and intestines. People with high visceral…

The recent publication of the University of Edinburgh’s Review of Race and History has drawn attention to its “skull room”: a collection…

A team of astronomers has found what appears to be a previously undiscovered moon orbiting Uranus. If confirmed, this finding would mean the gigantic blue-green ice planet would have 29 moons. The discovery was made using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), extending the instrument’s list…