Category: 7. Science

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent,…

The ozone hole over Antarctica in 2025 is officially the fifth smallest since 1992, a milestone NASA and NOAA scientists say reflects decades of global commitment to environmental protection.

Thanks to the Montreal Protocol and its…

China has moved one step closer to fulfilling its ambitious dream of building a palace on the Moon.

Specially engineered 100-gram bricks that…

New research from Cambridge and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin has decoded the mystery of magnetic fossils left by an ancient organism.

These microscopic, spearhead- or needle-shaped magnetic fragments were found in ancient seafloor sediments…

Scientists have long gazed at the Red Planet and wondered whether water once flowed on its surface or even remains hidden beneath its dusty crust. As exploration advances, a growing number of missions have collected data to tackle this…

In 2009, scientists found eight bones from the foot of a human ancestor in layers of ancient sediment at the Woranso-Mille site in the central Afar region of Ethiopia. The fossil remains, known as the Burtele Foot, were discovered by a…

Do the ice caps on the southern pole of Mars bury a secret reservoir of liquid water? A signal detected by Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS) aboard ESA (European Space Agency) Mars Express orbiter in…