Category: 9. Sci/Tech

This year has seen a number of artefacts recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast…

A single-dose vaccine for HIV and Covid-19 could be developed by combining two different

The earliest ankylosaur on the fossil record sported the most extreme adornments ever seen in a vertebrate animal, even other ankylosaurs.

Spicomellus afer, which lived during the Middle Jurassic more than 165 million years ago, wore spikes…

If you’re hunting for fun facts and quirky trivia to impress your friends, kids or family, you’ve landed in the right place. Below you’ll discover 121 interesting facts that will change the way you look at the world – and even the…

Scientists have taken a major step towards solving one of biology’s deepest mysteries: how two pieces of life’s essential molecules first came together more than four billion years ago.

Proteins, constructed from chains of amino acids, are…

Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days of postponements, Starship was finally able to launch its tenth test could flight from the launch pad in Starbase, Texas.

SpaceX’s largest and most powerful rocket…

The skull of a small child who lived and died many millennia ago represents the oldest direct evidence to date of the prolonged mingling between anatomically modern humans and our closely related cousins, the Neanderthals.

Clearly showing…

The top IQs ever recorded are between 200 and 250 IQ – but what exactly does that mean? Well, intelligence quotient (IQ) is used to measure a person’s level of, you guessed it, intelligence.

Scores are gathered by participants completing…

A Flower-like satellite has “bloomed” in outer space, unfolding to reveal the largest radar antenna reflector ever put into orbit. The NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR), a joint project between the US space agency and the Indian…

Somewhere out in the countryside, hidden behind a copse of trees, are fields full of dead human bodies. These corpses have been strategically laid out in rows, naked as the day they were born, and left to the mercy of the elements until all…