Category: 7. Science

Japan’s Akatsuki mission officially ended in September 2025 after more than a decade of operations and a final year of complete radio silence. Launched in 2010 by JAXA and operated by ISAS, the spacecraft was designed to study Venus’s…

Early human hunters didn’t just sharpen stone — they transformed simple projectiles into chemical weapons long before scholars expected. New analyses of ancient weapon fragments and residue show that people…

Faint ridges in Moroccan rock have revealed an ancient mystery: signs of microbial life deep below the sea surface, where sunlight never reached. These “wrinkle structures”, rare in rocks younger than 540 million years, were spotted in…

Pallab Ghosh and Alison Francis
Science correspondent and senior science journalist

Title: A Bimodal Metallicity Distribution Function in The Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxy Reticulum II

Authors:  Alice M. Luna, Alexander P. Ji, Anirudh Chiti, Joshua D. Simon, Daniel D. Kelson, Minsung Go, Guilherme Limberg, Ting S. Li, and…

Cockroaches are often seen as creatures that react without thinking, but new lab experiments suggest their behavior can change with experience.

In Scotland, male cockroaches exposed to bright light became more cautious when faced with uncertain…

Welcome back to the Abstract! These are the studies this week that entered the belly of the beast, craved human blood, exposed primate bonds, and pranked birds 

First, a prehistoric chew toy for a puppy opens a window into a doomed…

A groundbreaking study published in The Anatomical has challenged previous assumptions about human evolution.

Scientists once believed that our early ancestors took a significant evolutionary leap away from apes around the two-million-year…