Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A build-up of meltwater under the Greenland ice sheet in 2014 resulted in a flood of such magnitude that it burst upward through tens of meters of solid ice, fracturing the surface and spilling water to the open air.

It’s the first time…

But the search for such a pill—or indeed any treatment as effective as CPAP—has proved challenging. Dozens of drugs have failed to show efficacy in clinical trials, and while HGNS was first approved by the US Food and Drug Administration in…

A massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake struck Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on…

British researchers have discovered a rare handprint on a 4,000-year-old Egyptian artefact, a Cambridge museum said on Monday.

The ancient handprint was found by museum conservators on the base of an Egyptian soul house – a clay offering…

A snake so small it could be mistaken for a worm has been spotted in Barbados, nearly two decades after it was thought to have been “lost” to science.

The Barbados threadsnake (Tetracheilostoma carlae) was found hiding under a rock in central…

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning…

Scientists say they’ve finally solved the mystery behind what happens just before lightning…

Climbing is for the forest, and walking is for the savannah. That’s the basic premise behind one of the biggest theories of human evolution, which holds that our ancient ancestors transitioned from climbing in the trees to walking on the ground…

The search for life on Mars and moons across the Solar System may need to start digging a bit deeper to find answers underground. Beneath the surface of these planetary bodies, there’s a chance that biological activity is being energized by…

A new vaccine administration method doesn’t rely on needles or sprays to deliver the vaccine, but on dental floss. 

Publishing their findings in Nature Biomedical Engineering, a research team tested the vaccine-coated dental floss on animals,…