Category: 7. Science

Astronomers…

Across the British countryside, sunlight now feeds two kinds of life. Solar panels feed homes with power. Wildflowers beneath them feed bees. The hum of insects mixes with the quiet hum of electricity.

This blend of technology and nature has been…

Scientists have tracked 1,039 dust devils – tornado-like whirlwinds that skitter across the Red Planet. To do this, the team stitched together two decades of images from the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Mars Express and ExoMars Trace Gas…

Scientists have long suspected connections between heredity and disease, dating back to Hippocrates, who observed certain diseases ‘ran in families’. However, through the years, scientists have kept getting better at finding ways to also…

In 2013, YouTuber and science communicator Steve Mould brought the “chain fountain”, an unsolved problem in…

University of Cambridge scientists have used human stem cells to create three-dimensional embryo-like structures that replicate certain aspects of very early human development – including the production of blood stem cells.

Human blood stem…