Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A bolt of lightning that arced across the sky from Texas to Kansas in the fall of 2017 has officially smashed the record for the world’s longest.

During a major thunderstorm in October 2017, the colossal crack of jagged electricity streaked…

The spread of measles is showing no signs of slowing down in Mexico. Between July 21 and 25, the country’s number of confirmed infections in 2025 rose from 3,553 to 3,730, an increase of 197 in only four days, according to the Ministry of…

The earthquake near the east coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia on July 30 generated

A fungus long blamed for the deaths of archaeologists who opened King Tutankhamun’s tomb may now help save lives. Researchers have harnessed the toxic fungus Aspergillus flavus – once linked to the so-called ‘pharaoh’s curse’ – to…

A Chinese submersible has discovered thousands of worms and molluscs nearly 10 kilometres (six miles) below sea level in the Mariana Trench, the deepest colony of creatures ever observed, a study revealed on Wednesday.

The discovery in Earth’s…

The earthquake near the east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia on 30 July 2025 generated tsunami waves that have reached Hawaii and coastal areas of the US mainland.

The earthquake’s magnitude of 8.8 is significant, potentially making…

Earth’s layers of rock are typically superimposed, or laid one on top of another, meaning that the oldest layers tend to be buried beneath the youngest layers. But researchers recently confirmed that this isn’t always the case, as strange…

While volcanoes ignite all sorts of chaos on Earth, ice volcanoes in space drive geological change in an entirely different way. The landscapes of icy moons across our Solar System are shaped not by molten lava flows, but by water that boils and…