Category: 9. Sci/Tech

New Jersey is the new Roswell – or so it might seem after a swarm of bright lights, glowing orange-red orbs and unidentified flying objects filled the skies throughout December 2024.

As expected, these strange orbs gave rise to a flood of…

Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What would happen? Well, for starters we’d have to make new clocks that only have hours 1 to 6 for am and pm. If you had tickets to an 8 o’clock concert,…

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen using the natural properties of the common bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli). This breakthrough represents a milestone with the…

A belt of swirly, stripey rock in the northeast reaches of Canada looks like it contains some of the oldest minerals ever found on our planet’s surface.

A new dating analysis of minerals in the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt suggests that parts…

It’s fertility on ice. Egg-freezing boomed in the last decade, with a 400…

The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its

The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to…

A new study has pinpointed what could be the oldest rocks on Earth, found within a remote…

Mice with two fathers and no mother have now had offspring of their own. The study is a breakthrough in androgenesis – that is, asexual reproduction using only genetic material from male animals.

We’ve seen androgenesis in mice work in the…