Category: 7. Science

The Black Death tore through Europe in the late 1340s, killing tens of millions and halving populations across the continent in a matter of years.

Scientists have long known the plague’s culprit was Yersinia pestis, which is carried by fleas…

In 1978, NASA researcher Donald Kessler and his colleagues published a paper titled “Collision frequency of artificial satellites: The creation of a debris belt.”

The paper laid down a grim warning: a single collision between…

Kangaroos are famous for long, powerful hops across the Australian landscape. What makes this movement even more fascinating is how kangaroos hop faster without using extra energy.

For many animals, moving faster usually means burning more fuel….

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that defied expectations, broke barriers, made trash into shelter, and lived to swear another day.

First, there’s a giant, lemony, diamond-studded, black widow in space….

A newly published study in the scientific journal Science Advances unveils the deep-time processes responsible for the exceptional plant diversity characterizing the world’s mountain regions.

While the richness of alpine flora is…

On Episode 190 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik look back at the past year in space — its ups, its downs, its all-arounds.

What a year it’s been,…

The major scientific breakthroughs and…