Category: 7. Science

It would be tempting to assume there’s nothing much of note happening on Mars, but that dusty rusty planet has a lot of interesting stuff going on.

Most of it has to do with rocks. Mars has a lot of rocks. In fact, Mars has so many rocks that…

Scientists have measured for the first time how bird feathers send body heat toward space, identifying northern bobwhite quail as unusually strong emitters.

The finding reframes feathers as active thermal structures that shape how birds gain and…

A new study has found that amino acids have survived inside fossil mammal teeth for 48 million years, extending the known lifespan of these molecules far beyond earlier limits.

That durability turns tooth enamel into a far deeper archive of…

In a light show worthy of an underground rave, every May the fireflies of Congaree National Park, South Carolina, put on a coordinated display that illuminates the forest. Now researchers have worked out how they keep their flashes in synch….

In June 2019, a Japanese spacecraft called Hayabusa2 touched down on Ryugu, a 3,000-foot…

For years, Greenland’s rugged eastern coast sat in near silence. Then, in an instant, seismic sensors around the world started flashing with the same strange signal – a slow, steady pulse that kept going for nine straight days.

Every 92…