Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Next month it will have been 80 years since the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastated by nuclear attacks.

More than 200,000 people – mostly citizens – would die by the year’s end as a direct consequence of the blasts,…

Life on Earth is complex and hard to understand, but new research may have finally given us a much-needed glimpse into the patterns that life follows as it spreads across our planet. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology…

Our solar system contains three types of planets. Between the four terrestrial…

In the dark waters of the deep sea, lurk many curious and enigmatic animals that few have seen. Frilled sharks (Chlamydoselachus anguineus), for instance, have been known about for more than a century, but much of their lives remain…

You may have seen videos circulating online of Donald Trump and Elon Musk doing outlandish things – recreating scenes from the TV show Breaking Bad, for example. You may have also seen footage of them getting down to the Village People’s hit…

We’re losing our fight to control climate change, which has led a lot of scientists to look for new ways to combat the consistently rising global temperatures. While we’ve come up with a few different solutions to try, many come…

Three newly-discovered species of deep sea ‘spiders’ farm methane-eating bacteria on their own bodies in a symbiosis quite unlike anything seen before.

Unlike animals like ourselves, who are fed by a solar-powered food chain, those that live…

Every action in our world is powered by a “force of nature.” Currently, there are four main forces that scientists cling to; gravity, electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction. The latter two are technically…

Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her immune system and antibiotics would have been ill suited to put up a fight. A group of prominent scientists recently

Jumping spiders are all the rage among entomologists, but an entire genus living in New Zealand’s South Island rocky alpine regions, comprising 12 different species, has managed to evade human identification – until now.

This actually isn’t…