Category: 7. Science

The night sky always keeps secrets. Scientists have just exposed one of its wildest. After almost 25 years of work, researchers finally confirmed that Europe’s biggest bat, the greater noctule, doesn’t just snack on insects.

The bat hunts…

Peering into deep space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has helped astronomers find places to study gravitational lensing, an effect in which massive objects such as galaxies warp space-time itself, bending and distorting the light of even…

Bumblebees are crucial for ecosystems. They pollinate wild plants and crops, keeping habitats healthy. 

But many populations in Europe are declining because of…

Source: Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Magnetotelluric (MT) data, which contain measurements of electric and magnetic field variations at Earth’s surface, provide insights into the electrical resistivity of…

Tiny crystals in Earth’s crust may have recorded meteorite and comet impacts as our planet traveled through the spiral arms of the Milky Way over more than 4 billion years, according to new research.

The study is one of the first to…

* Dark as coal: TrES-2b is an orb so dark, it is said to be less reflective than coal. The reason: at an estimated 1200 degrees Celsius, it is too hot to support clouds. In addition, its atmosphere is heavy with chemicals that absorb light, such…