Category: 9. Sci/Tech

An upside-down jellyfish drifts in a shallow lagoon, rhythmically contracting its translucent…

Mars is half the size of Earth, with a tenth of our planet’s mass, and at the nearest point…

Historians have been reconstructing the long-lost story of two of British history’s most…

People who don’t eat meat may be less likely than meat eaters to reach the age of 100,…

Spider monkeys possess a sophisticated social system, sharing “insider knowledge” about the…

Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

Their creamy carbonate walls and columns appear ghostly blue in the light of a remotely operated vehicle sent to…

New filtration technologies that could absorb “forever chemicals” at an “ultrafast”…

Starfish (aka sea stars) are master climbers. These many-armed invertebrates traverse vertical, horizontal, and even upside-down surfaces: it seems no substrate is too rocky, slimy, sandy, or glassy. And they do so without a centralized…

Virus. The word evokes images of illness and fears of outbreaks. Yet, in the oceans, not all viruses are bad news.

Some play a helpful, even critical, role in sustaining marine life.

In a new study, an international team of scientists and I…