Category: 9. Sci/Tech

In 2022, the research vessel Sonne journeyed to a remote corner of the ocean to retrieve samples from one of the most challenging environments on Earth.

Using a sampling device called a gravity corer, the Sonne sampled sediment and rock from an…

Scientists have created a new tool that estimates a person’s risk of developing memory and…

A common virus that infects most people can trigger the chronic immune system condition

Non-invasive monitoring equipment is incredibly important to underwater scientific discovery. Placed in hard-to-monitor areas, these devices silently and invisibly record sounds to help scientists understand and protect marine life.

Narwhals —…

Christmas Island lies around 217 miles (about 350 kilometers) from Indonesia, while mainland Australia is nearly five times as distant. But if you dig into the rocky base of the island, you’ll find materials traceable to large continents.

How…

Neanderthals may have never truly gone extinct, according to new research – at least not in the genetic sense.

A new mathematical model has explored a fascinating scenario in which Neanderthals gradually disappeared not through “true…

Great white sharks are used to sitting at the top of their ocean food chain. But even these feared predators occasionally find themselves as prey rather than predator. Pods of orcas, or killer whales, have been known to hunt weaker or younger…

For as long as humans have looked up, the Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters, have stood out — a compact cluster of blue-white stars that seems small to the eye but hides a vast galactic family. Astronomers have traced that family…