Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Fossilized predator bones found in the legendary Cretaceous dinosaur graveyard of Hell Creek did not belong to a baby Tyrannosaurus rex after all.

Analysis of the remains – an almost complete skeleton that forms half of the famous…

An angler in Sweden has uncovered an extraordinary medieval cauldron of historic jewellery…

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to make them immune to HIV and used the embryos to…

The X-59 will generate a lower “sonic thump” thanks to its unique design. It was given a long, slender nose that accounts for about a third of the total length and breaks up pressure waves that would otherwise merge on other parts of the…

Scientists have made some intriguing parasite discoveries in an accidental back-of-the-pantry natural history museum. Canned salmon, well past its prime, has preserved decades of Alaskan marine ecology in brine and tin.

Parasites can reveal a…

Last week’s request for public comment from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) doesn’t look like a major win for a tech giant to the naked eye. In fact, it seems almost clerical. But for Google and Microsoft, the announcement constitutes a…

Archaeologists have unravelled the “murder mystery” of a teenage girl buried 2,000 years…

Spraying particles into Earth’s atmosphere to try and cool a warming planet might sound like a good idea in theory, but it will only work if it’s done properly – and even then, it could carry risks that might spill beyond our control,…

If you’re scouting the southern wetlands of the U.K. or roaming marshy habitats in eastern Asia, you might be lucky and come across a rather odd-looking deer, looking all plush and cute until it flashes its scary-looking set of vampire-like…