Category: 9. Sci/Tech

Key Takeaways for Bacteria On Mars

• Bacteria can lie dormant for long periods of time and eventually be resuscitated. While looking for bacteria on Mars, experts need to keep this notion in mind.
• Dormant bacteria from Earth could be hiding on our…

Fallen whale carcasses offer islands of nutrition within an otherwise sparse seafloor, and with help from bone-eating zombie worms, they can sustain an entire ecosystem for decades.

But in recent years, scientists have found the zombie worms…

“Come on, little fella – we should get going now.” But my son was not listening. The sand in the playground was just right, so he kept digging with his new toy excavator.

As I drifted back to my list of to-dos, however, the laughter was…

A towering, trunk-like organism that sprouted from the ground 400 million years ago has turned into quite the prehistoric mystery. These organisms — known by the genus name Prototaxites — look somewhat like living stalagmites, or cacti…

Sometimes, it just takes one researcher picking up on a single inconsistency to uncover how an earthquake long believed to be one of the most devastating in Greece’s history was most likely not as dramatic as previously thought.

Analyzing old…

Whales returning to the Gulf of St. Lawrence are increasingly sharing the same food, a trend that reflects how warming waters and changing prey are reshaping one of the North Atlantic’s most important feeding grounds.

The Gulf of St. Lawrence is…

We live in a world that demands our attention. Sitting down to eat dinner? May as well scroll through the dozens of videos a friend sent. Trying to get some work done? Better check Snapchat first. Can’t sleep? May as well doomscroll through all…

As many parts of North America get ready for a surge of cold weather, opening your windows is the last thing on people’s minds. However, a growing number of homeowners are doing exactly that — intentionally and enthusiastically — in the hope…