Category: 7. Science

In Greenland, rapidly melting sea ice isn’t just affecting local fish and animals. It’s also creating major changes in fishing, the region’s dominant industry, and presenting an uncertain future.

What’s happening?

As Euronews reported, changes…

Ten undergraduate students from the University of Chicago made an astounding discovery using data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). As part of their “Field Course in Astrophysics,” they located one of the oldest stars in the…

Deep in the ocean’s darkest waters, anglerfish use one of the strangest tools in nature – a glowing lure that dangles in front of their mouths like bait.

For years, scientists assumed it existed for a single purpose: to catch prey. But new…

Researchers have found that Jupiter kept several large moons because a magnetic cavity formed in gas circling the young planet, while Saturn never opened one.

That newly established split explains why the Solar System’s two giant planets ended…

With the launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission on April 1, 2026, human beings have finally returned to the Moon for the first time in 50 years – since the age of Apollo.

When Apollo 11 first landed on the lunar surface, the astronauts…

Astronomers have sought to measure the expansion rate of the Universe using two fundamentally different approaches. One method relies on measuring distances to stars and galaxies in the nearby Universe. The other uses…

The tropical disease known as sleeping sickness is caused by the African Trypanosoma brucei parasite.

For decades, scientists have been unable to pin down exactly how this parasite successfully evades detection in its hosts – until now.

What…

Summary: Neurons are the ultimate logistical challenge of the biological world. To maintain their long, complex structures, they must deliver specific proteins to exact locations—like the Axon Initial Segment (AIS)—with pinpoint accuracy. A…