Category: 9. Sci/Tech

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth’s most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a body into multicellular tissue when the pressure’s on.

“The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical…

Although volcanic eruptions can strike when least expected, they sometimes give off warning signs that can be captured by advanced technology. One innovative way to monitor eruptions is now being put to the test at the Reykjanes Peninsula, a…

Instead of targeted, aggressive attacks, sharks may bite humans out of self-defense. Within the media, sharks are often seen as bloodthirsty predators. However, shark attacks are rare and, for the most part, not fatal.

Researchers explain how…

Researchers developed a polymer-based therapy that can be injected following a heart attack that helps heart tissue heal. After administering it to rats, they demonstrated that it works up to five weeks later, they reported in the journal Continue Reading

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover…

It sounds like a setup for a horror movie: a meat-eating, cannibalistic caterpillar hiding in the shadows of a spiderweb and dressed in the remains of its former prey. But this incredible species, dubbed the “bone collector” and previously…

Whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals are washing up dead along the California…

Satellite observations had shown alternating stripes of light-colored and dark-colored rock in this area. In late March, Perseverance excavated one of the light-colored formations and collected a sample. In the process it discovered the strange…

Intermittent fasting has become a popular strategy for boosting health and metabolism, but a new study suggests that its benefits may be blunted by body fat, thanks to a hidden disruption in the liver’s ability to adapt to…

Intermittent fasting has become a popular strategy for boosting health and metabolism, but a new study suggests that its benefits may be blunted by body fat, thanks to a hidden disruption in the liver’s ability to adapt to…