Category: 7. Science

Winter in Antarctica is long and dark. Temperatures remain well below freezing. In many places, the Sun sets in April and does not rise above the horizon again until August. Without sunlight, photosynthetic life such as plants, mosses and…

Two studies were recently published in Astronomy & Astrophysics by an international team including David Benisty from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP). Each paper analyzes observational data for a different nearby…

Oysters sit quietly on the ocean floor, filtering water and building thick shells that protect them from predators and rough conditions.

Those shells are not just simple coverings. They are carefully built structures made mostly of calcium…

Radiation is one of the most lethal stressors that a living creature can face. In humans, acute exposure to even just a few grays (units of absorbed radiation) can cause nausea, organ failure, and death. And yet, in some microscopic animals, the…

Research scientists are saying that recycled human waste could help grow crops on the Moon and Mars, representing a significant change in how we think about living on the Moon or Mars for an extended time. In the past, there has been no hope of…

A newborn black hole has been caught speeding away from its birth site at about 112,000 miles per hour (180,000 kilometers per hour). For the first time, scientists have also been able to trace its escape route.

The measurement used ripples in…