Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Archeologists at a Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall have uncovered a…

Female athletes are closing the performance gap with their male peers and may soon…

A volcano that has been dormant for more than 250,000 years might not be as dead and gone as it looks.

Beneath the tall peaks of Uturuncu in the Sur Lípez Province of Bolivia, scientists have figured out what is happening in the magma…

Archaeologists are revealing the secrets of a long-lost Stone Age civilisation – believed…

Earth’s cycles of light and dark profoundly affect billions of organisms. Events such as solar eclipses are known to bring about marked shifts in animals, but do they have the same effect on plants?

During a solar eclipse in a forest in…

We’ve discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously thought. Our results are published today in the journal Geology.

This impact now aligns with some of Earth’s earliest…

An unidentified skull uncovered at a Hungarian basilica decades ago may belong to the…

Deepfakes – videos where a person’s face or body has been digitally altered to mimic someone else – are getting disturbingly good: they now even have heartbeats.

This finding, detailed in a new study published in the journal Frontiers in…

We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots.

The forest made of a single tree known as Pando (“I spread” in Latin) has 47,000 stems (all…

We often picture the Caribbean as a place to relax and escape life’s challenges. Evidently, so too did the sebecid — a tall crocodile-like species that replaced the dinosaur as an apex predator. Paleontologists have thought the species went…