Category: 7. Science

Aerospace company Vast is building the world’s first commercial space station called Haven-1. Right now, the company is aiming for a May 2026 launch. The station is being built in the U.S. and is meant to give people a place to live and…

A tiny spider frozen in 100-million-year-old amber is changing what scientists thought they knew about spider evolution. This prehistoric creature had spinnerets like modern spiders, but also a long tail.

The fossil, uncovered in the…

Spruce bark is packed with phenolic compounds that defend the tree against invading fungi. Those chemicals live in the phloem, the inner bark that beetles chew through as they tunnel. 

A team at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in…

Recently, the Hubble Space Telescope captured an image of a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Markarian 178 (Mrk 178) is one of over 1500 “Markarian galaxies,” a class defined by their unusually strong ultraviolet emission first…

Greetings! And welcome to the new year! Although we’ve lost Mercury from the early morning sky, you can still…

Researchers working to explain the higher-than-expected optical performance of transparent ceramics have turned to a controversial new concept, known as “zentropy theory.”

Described as a blend of quantum mechanics,

The gentle giants that are the sea cows – meaning manatees and dugongs – are some of the most iconic animals out there, but they’ve also become vulnerable to extinction through the actions of humans – and it’s not even the first time…