Category: 7. Science

Scientists have documented four previously unknown species of tiny, insect-like springtails in China. Each one is smaller than a grain of rice and lives almost entirely out of sight.

Known as springtails, these animals inhabit the thin layer of…

Rows of preserved specimen jars from Charles Darwin’s iconic Galapagos voyage have sat, unopened, in the archives of London’s Natural History Museum (NHM) for 200 years. Now, lasers have given us an unprecedented look inside.

Darwin himself is…

Scientists have confirmed a bright yellow deep-sea animal, Corallizoanthus aureus, as a new species of marine coral. It emits green light when disturbed, marking the first known case of bioluminescence documented inside a deep-sea cave.

The…

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have uncovered an unprecedented richness of small gas-phase hydrocarbons — such as benzene, triacetylene, diacetylene, acetylene, methane and methyl radical — in the deeply…

For the world’s smallest sea turtles, life in the ocean is getting pretty noisy. These relatively little turtles (on average they’re still 75 to 100 pounds) mostly found in the Gulf of Mexico already face  fishing gear accidents, seacraft…

The hottest topic in astronomy is what exactly the little red dots (LRDs) hiding in JWST images really are.

Everyone agrees they’re high-redshift (and hence distant) systems, which are compact yet bright – but beyond that, everything is still…

BEIJING, Feb. 8 (Xinhua) — For the first time, scientists have confirmed that the impact cratering rates on the near and far sides of the moon are essentially consistent, laying a solid basis for the establishment of a globally unified lunar…

At 4:30 a.m. you’ll find Kevin Hart in the gym.

While he’s best known for being a comedian and actor, Hart trains like a serious athlete: six days a week, about an hour and a half a day, no excuses.

It started over a…