Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Beneath the American Midwest, on the continent of North America, the underside of Earth’s crust is dripping into the planetary interior.

There, blobs of molten rock are coalescing in the upper mantle of the planet, eventually gaining enough…

Earth’s space junk problem isn’t just growing—it’s accelerating. According to the European Space Agency’s latest Space Environment Report, 2024 saw some of the largest debris-generating events in decades. And with satellite…

Newly-identified dinosaur footprints on the Isle of Skye reveal herbivores and carnivores…

It is a charming scene in The Sound of Music when Maria and the Von Trapp children sing about a lonely goatherd yodelling in the Austrian Alps (lay-ee-odl-lay-ee-odl-lay-hee-hoo).

But little did these characters know, their yodelling would be put…

What was meant to be a triumphant crewed test flight for Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft nearly became a catastrophe. And new revelations from NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams show the mission, which launched in June…

It sounds like a paleontological crime scene: dozens of ancient amphibian fossils found buried relatively close together. The bones of the crocodile-sized creatures — known as metoposaurid temnospondyls — lie intact. What brought them there?…

The stars in our galaxy are serenading us with songs, that is, if we take the time to translate them.

According to a new paper published in Nature, constant “starquakes” cause some stars to fluctuate in brightness — a result that seems…

With winter having come to a close, people living near the Rocky Mountains will have to reckon with the effects of snow contamination, an enduring issue magnified by mining activities in the region. A new study provides an unprecedented look at…

There is now a pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice that is designed to help the tiniest of hearts. Researchers from Northwestern University have successfully developed a pacemaker that fits in the tip of a syringe and can be inserted…

When it comes to food poisoning, the body — well, more specifically, the brain — keeps score. Almost everyone can relate to eating something that caused them, to put it delicately, to suffer severe gastrointestinal distress that then renders…