Category: Engineering

A new species of ancient marine reptile, a plesiosaur, has been identified that swam the oceans 183 million years ago. 

The discovery was made by studying a fossilized skeleton from Germany’s Posidonia Shale — a fossil bed famous for its…

China’s state broadcaster, China Central TV (CCTV), has reportedly aired a segment that appears to show catapult take-off trials onboard its in-development aircraft carrier, the Fujian.

Aired as part of a celebration of the 98th…

Plastic pollution is no longer just an environmental issue. It is a full-scale public health crisis, according to a new expert review.

The report warns that plastics are a “grave, growing and under-recognised danger” to both human and…

In a global first, England’s National Health Service (NHS) has launched a free vaccination program to fight gonorrhoea, the second most common bacterial sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the country.

Starting from August 4, sexual…

U.S. tech giant Apple is likely on course to building its own AI ‘answer engine’, a stripped-down version of ChatGPT, that can respond to open questions across the web.

The team is known as Answers, Knowledge, and Information(AKI), and…

Chinese scientists found that microbes living deep within the Earth can get their energy from rock fractures caused by earthquakes.

These findings challenge the idea that sunlight is the ultimate energy source for all life. It could expand…