Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Some dinosaurs were scaly, some were covered in bony plates of armor, and others were even feathered. But now paleontologists have discovered a new species with a type of skin covering that’s never been seen in dinosaurs before: hollow…

Each year, the world produces upward of 450 million metric tons of plastic waste — far more than the combined weight of every person on Earth, according to Our World in Data. A 2023 study in Yonsei Medical Journal found that this pollution may…

In places like Chernobyl and Fukushima, where nuclear disasters have flooded the environment with dangerous radiation, it makes sense that life might evolve ways to survive it.

But one of the most radiation-resistant organisms ever discovered…

Astronomers have just identified what appears to be a cosmic anomaly: a faint galaxy with so few visible stars that, according to calculations, as much as 99.9 percent of its mass is dark matter. The remaining 0.1 percent is conventional matter.

An archaeological site in the Middle East now stands as one of the oldest areas that humans occupied outside of Africa, a distinction that has been set in stone by snails and ancient sediments. The site of ‘Ubeidiya, located just south of the…

A broken tooth remains lodged in the face of a duck-billed dinosaur that died 66 million years ago. That fragment, preserved in the skull of Edmontosaurus, has now been identified as belonging to Tyrannosaurus, the top predator of its time. In a…

Experts estimate that around 80 percent of the risk of developing colorectal cancer comes from our environment, steering researchers to investigate the role microorganisms play in the disease.

While searching for microbial triggers in the human…