Category: 9. Sci/Tech

If you’ve ever opened a bottle of cabernet sauvignon and wondered why it tastes so consistently like itself, the answer may be stranger than expected: the grape remembers. According to a new study in Genome Biology, every cabernet vine growing…

At around 3,300 meters (2 miles) below the ocean’s surface off the coast of Alaska, where the warm light of the Sun never penetrates, an NOAA Ocean Exploration remotely operated underwater vehicle came across a strange, golden orb.

The bizarre…

Mere three-foot-tall mounds scattered across the vast, arid Kazakh Steppe are all that’s left of a once-unusually large Bronze Age settlement that powered regional bronze production 3,500 years ago. But beneath those low ridges, archaeologists…

Imagine throwing up after a bad burrito – only for that heave to reveal the existence of onions to scientists 110 million years in the future. That’s pretty much what just happened, as paleontologists describe a new species of pterosaur…

Humanity’s first kiss dates back 21 million years and our ape ancestors may have locked lips…

A vast, ancient structure discovered in Mexico may reveal how early Mayan civilisations understood the world to work. In their new study, archaeologists say that new findings indicate the 3,000-year-old site, known as Aguada Fénix, was a…

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If I asked you to imagine your dream snog, chances are it wouldn’t be with a Neanderthal;…

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