Category: 7. Science

Researchers are building a computer chip-like device that mimics the brain, and eventually dissolves into the dirt after use. 

The Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) in South Korea has developed a fully biodegradable…

The question is playful and unrealistic, but it points to a serious idea: the tension between quantity and quality. New research suggests this same tradeoff has shaped evolution, especially in the rise of complex animal societies.

How ants…

NASA’s SPHEREx observatory has completed its first map of the entire sky over Earth, and it is incredible.

Beyond its aesthetic value, the map and the rest of the data collected by SPHEREx, which launched in March this year, will help…

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have successfully modelled…

Scientists have discovered the single largest dinosaur track site in the world in Carreras Pampa, Torotoro National Park, Bolivia. The tracks were made around 70 million years ago, in the late Cretaceous Period, by theropods – bipedal…

One of the primary goals of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is to detect atmospheres around exoplanets, to try to suss out whether or not they could potentially support life. But, in order to do that, scientists have to know where…

One of the greatest mysteries the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was developed to investigate was the birth of supermassive black holes (SMBHs).

For more than twenty years, astronomers have puzzled over how these gravitational behemoths…