Category: 7. SciTech

Chinese geologists claim to have discovered a record-smashing 1,000-tonne deposit of gold in the country’s northeast, following last year’s…

Skywatchers around the country will be able to see a partial solar eclipse this weekend.

While not as rare as a total solar eclipse, the…

A newly discovered species of feathered, bipedal dinosaur with “exceptionally preserved and atypical hands” had just two fingers, each one tipped with a gigantic, claw-like talon.

A remarkable fossil specimen found in southeastern Mongolia gave researchers a clear idea of what the claws…

Deforestation, farming and climate-fuelled fires are driving increasing threats to fungi, the lifeblood of most plants on Earth, the International Union for Conservation of Nature warned on Thursday.

At least 411 fungi face extinction out of the 1,300 varieties whose conservation status is…

A new exhibition offers a glimpse into the unusual and sometimes bizarre medical practices of the Middle Ages.

The Cambridge University Library…

Skywatchers around the country will be able to see a partial solar eclipse this weekend.

While not as rare as a total solar eclipse, the…

Ever since their discovery more than 165 years ago, massive fossilized structures left by an organism known as Prototaxites have proven impossible to categorize.

Researchers in the UK have now suggested in a report that is yet to be peer reviewed that there’s a very good reason these oddities…

After more than a decade of scanning the stars, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia spacecraft has officially gone silent. The Gaia shutdown marks the end of a groundbreaking mission but not the end of its legacy.

Launched in 2013, Gaia set out to create the most detailed map of…

Feeling stressed? That’s not surprising. The modern world, with its relentlessly breaking bad news and always-on communication, is more or less set up to keep us on edge. 

But there’s a problem: our bodies are built for fight or flight, not fearmongering and Facebook notifications. We’re…

Lots of strange things happened in 2023. But one thing (arguably the most notable thing to happen that year) went largely unnoticed. For the first time since the 1980s, the number of people with obesity in the US decreased.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, the obesity rate…