Category: 9. Sci/Tech

On Christmas Eve 2025, deep within Sicily’s Mount Etna, it started to rumble again. Although Mount Etna is one of the most active volcanoes in the world, showing activity throughout the year, one of its main craters on the Northeast side…

Travel back a hundred thousand years to Paleolithic Europe, and you might find Neanderthals building fires, crafting jewelry, and feasting on mammoths.

Our hominin relatives dominated Europe for hundreds of millennia. Then, around 38,000 to 50,000…

The first full moon of 2026 will light up the night sky on Saturday, January 3, offering skywatchers a bright and memorable start to the year. Known as the Wolf Moon, this full moon will reach peak illumination at 5:03 a.m. EST, meaning the best…

The Chernobyl disaster unleashed over one hundred radioactive elements into the atmosphere, devastating the area and prompting a mass evacuation.

But one species is not just surviving, it is thriving in northern Ukraine’s abandoned power plants…

Most of us would say our beloved dogs and cats are part of the family. We live,…

The world’s oldest known botanical art, from the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia around 6000 BCE, hides fascinating cultural shifts in its seemingly simple motifs, a new study reveals.

The decorated pottery marks an early appreciation…

Scientists say special immune cells in the body can damage bone marrow over the years and…

Volunteers are being sought for an online challenge to help find stars being torn apart by…

A curious and paradoxical intolerance for lactose across the South Asian subcontinent could help explain why the ability for adults to consume fresh milk from other animals developed in other populations.

Researchers from the University of…

In 2024 we emitted more greenhouse gases into our atmosphere in a single year than any year before it. The increase from 2023 was small—0.8 percent—but still, global emissions continue to rise, despite science telling us we should have bent…