Category: 7. Science

In the vast expanse of low Earth orbit, where international cooperation meets the unforgiving vacuum of space, a longstanding issue has finally reached a resolution. For nearly five years, a series of microscopic cracks in the Russian…

The fearsome silent hunters of the deep – sharks – aren’t usually hued like a traffic cone, but now and again, nature goes “Hold my beer.”

One spectacular example of this is a nurse shark (Ginglymostoma cirratum) caught and released by…

Mice have remained the focal point for life sciences research for the past several decades. Their universality in biomedicine lies in the fact that they present unparalleled insights into human biology. Their applicability to biomedicine can be…

For decades, human betaherpesviruses 6A and 6B were thought to be relatively recent scientific discoveries, having only been identified in the 1980s and associated with mild childhood illness. A new study now pushes that documented history far…

Combing the strandline often delivers a pocketful of cockles and other clam shells with a neat hole close to where the hinge would have been, in a thickened region of the shell called the umbo.

The hole is a precision job – rounded, smooth and…

The first Starlink satellites to join SpaceX’s megaconstellation in 2026 were launched today (Jan. 4) on a brand new Falcon 9 rocket.

The fresh booster, carrying 29 of the internet broadband relay units, lifted off on Sunday at 1:48 a.m. EST…

Deep beneath South Africa’s gold fields, an unexpected gas has been building for billions of years. Helium, essential for MRI scanners and advanced research, sits trapped in the ancient rocks of the Witwatersrand Basin at concentrations rarely…