Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A “remarkable” Bronze Age hoard, unearthed on land earmarked for football pitches, is set to…

The annual clock of the seasons – winter, spring, summer, autumn – is often taken as a given.

But our new study in Nature, using a new approach for observing seasonal growth cycles from satellites, shows that this notion is far too…

If you’re looking for a workout to help you lose a few pounds, your first instinct might be to hit the gym.

But racking up the recommended 150 minutes of exercise a week that way is hard, especially when you’re squeezing it in around work,…

The team members went through a process of incrementally determining what elements and molecules the bacterial strain could grow on. They already knew it could use oxygen, so they tested other combinations in the lab. When oxygen was absent, RSW1…

A 5,000-year-old cow’s tooth may offer fresh new evidence about how Stonehenge was built, hinting that cattle travelled with the monument’s stones from Wales to Wiltshire.

Using advanced isotope analysis, researchers studied a jawbone first…