Category: 7. Science

While we have sent probes billions of kilometers into interstellar space, humans have barely scratched the surface of our own planet, not even making it through the thin crust.

Information about Earth’s deep interior comes mainly from geophysics…

Join experts from artificial intelligence (AI) and data science, thematic applications, engineers, and research scientists active in the field of foundation models (FMs) applied to climate, weather, Earth observation (EO), and Earth sciences from…

When the beacons were lit in “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King,” the city of Gondor called to Rohan for aid, spelling doom for Sauron and his legions. However, when the beacons of supermassive black hole systems named for these…

Ancient Caribbean reefs functioned in ways modern ecosystems no longer do, according to a new study.

Food chains that once supported a complex web of predators and prey have compressed by up to 70%, stripping reefs of an entire layer of…

Cosmic rays, or astroparticles, are a means through which astronomers can explore the Universe. These charged particles, which are mostly protons and the nuclei of atoms stripped of their electrons, travel through space at close to the…

Supernova explosions are part of how the universe builds matter, but they’re not the only cosmic blasts that shape what we’re made of.

When a massive star runs out of fuel, it ends its life as a supernova. The star’s core collapses, its…

Some athletes go to the gym. Some run long distances across vast terrains. Some even build their fitness using brine and seafoam.

But many Olympic hopefuls, such as those competing in this year’s Games, sometimes schlep to more than…

There are two main types of antagonists in Star Trek. Sometimes an entire alien race, such as the Borg, the Romulans or the Dominion, becomes the sworn enemy of the United Federation of Planets, kept at a distance via treaties, neutral zones or…