Category: Science & Technology

A tornado is a rotating column of air that touches the land, often connected to the base of a thunderstorm. The direction of spin is

Figuring out what our ancestors were up to thousands of years ago is no easy task – but in some regions of the planet, it’s

In 1931, at the age of 28, Louis Leakey made his first trip to Olduvai Gorge, in what is now Tanzania. His goal: to prove

It was the writer Edgar Allan Poe who first proposed a solution to Olber’s paradox: why is the sky dark at night? The reason for

A newly developed material may be about to revolutionize solar energy. Created using what the researchers call a “multi-junction” approach, the material is already more

The Earth has an electric field that allows atmospheric particles to escape near the poles. Yet despite the concept being proposed around the time humans

Does your cat’s big fat belly appear to comedically swing from side to side when it walks or runs? You might just be looking at

Between 23 and 11.6 million years ago, an unlucky sea cow had a very bad day. It got munched on by not one, but two

The locations of “knot-like structures” in the human genome have been mapped for the first time. Known as i-motifs, these odd shapes were reported to

The US Bureau of Reclamation has come up with a plan to prevent invasive smallmouth bass from taking over the Grand Canyon, and it involves

Wildlife Photographer Of The Year is back for its 60th anniversary and ahead of the big competition announcement, they’ve released some of the highly commended

The Vikings are renowned for their violent raids on foreign lands, yet new research suggests that murder and bloodthirst were not the norm across all

Science fiction has its fair share of galaxy-spanning civilizations. From the United Federation of Planets to the Galactic Empire, from the rule of Paul Atreides

A pod of orcas has taken out a boat off the coast of Spain, damaging the rudder to such an extent that the two-person crew

Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS) has been a right tease. Back in May, it looked on the way to brightening steadily and becoming visible to the

As the search for ever-more sources of clean, renewable energy continues, it seems like there’s one resource we’ve forgotten to tap into. Not for nothing

A Falcon 9 rocket had an unexpected failure on August 28 when the booster rocket landed following its trip to space. There were no injuries