Category: 9. Sci/Tech

The Perseids are one of 2025’s most prolific meteor showers of the year and a great reason to look up at the night sky.

The meteor shower is known for having some of the highest meteor rates – up to 100 per hour under absolutely perfect…

The potato, a global food staple first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Andes region…

Utility workers expanding gas networks in Peru’s capital, Lima, have unearthed two…

For years, Philip Goulder has been obsessed with a particularly captivating idea: In the hunt for an HIV cure, could children hold the answers?

Starting in the mid-2010s, the University of Oxford pediatrician and immunologist began working with…

Have you ever noticed that when you’re hiking or just taking a walk in the woods, you rarely see a dead animal? There are plenty of animals out there, and like everyone else, they die. So why don’t we ever stumble upon their bodies? Is there…

Despite the best of intentions, travelers aren’t always in the clearest…

Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection…