Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In the UK, the NHS recommends six to eight glasses, or up to 1.2 litres of fluids, a day, pointing out that we also get water from food. Harvard Medical School recommends four to six cups a day. But it’s the more extreme two litres of water a…

The coral that makes up the Great Barrier Reef has experienced the greatest decline in recorded history. According to yearly surveys that track the state of coral, the reef has declined by up to a third in some parts following a major bleaching…

Could scientists upload an animal brain to a computer? The answer to this depends on what you mean by ‘upload’ and ‘brain’. If you’re a little free and easy on both, then it’s been done already.

Caenorhabditis elegans is a tiny little worm that…

Key Takeaways About Uranus’s Moons:

• Uranus has 29 moons orbiting it. The first two moons Herschel spotted in 1787 were Oberon and Titania, and they are Uranus’s largest moons.
• There is another Uranus moon that the James Webb Space Telescope…

Can you slip into a more relaxed state and sharpen your focus by simply listening…

On 22 February 1498, a well-weathered mid-40s Christopher Columbus ordained in writing that his estate in the Italian port city of Genoa would be maintained for his family “because from it I came and in it I was born”.

Though most historians…

The fierce debate over whether Homo sapiens was the first species to bury its dead is far from over.

After a decade of back-and-forth with skeptics, paleoanthropologist Lee Berger and his team are not going to let their hypothesis die: that a…