Category: 7. Science

When polar ice sheets melt, the effects ripple across the world. The melting ice raises average global sea level, alters ocean currents and affects temperatures in places far from the poles.

But melting ice sheets don’t affect sea level and…

Rats, like people, jump at the chance to repeat a task that rewards them handsomely, but they are less eager when the reward is paltry: They learn from past experience and update their behavior accordingly.

That learning is shaped by…

Paleontologists have analyzed an exceptionally long sauropod trackway at the West Gold Hill Dinosaur Tracksite in Colorado, the United States. Their results show that the giant dinosaur which made it may have been limping.

Earth still carries traces from a time before the Moon existed. Those traces do not sit on the surface as fossils or bones. They hide in tiny differences between atoms deep inside rocks.

A group of researchers has studied those atoms and now…

A visitor looks at a lunar soil sample displayed at a Space Day of China science exhibition in Hefei, east China’s Anhui province, April 24, 2023. [Photo/Xinhua]

China has taken a concrete step toward realizing its ambition of…

(Web Desk) – A study to see how moss would fare in the extreme environment of space has left scientists “genuinely astonished” after the plant was able to survive nine months outside the International Space…

A team of researchers from Japan has tested protenemata (juvenile moss), brood cells (specialized stem cells that emerge under stress conditions) and sporophytes (encapsulated spores) of the model moss species Physcomitrium patens under…

On Saturday, the Beijing-based start-up LandSpace reportedly plans to conduct the maiden launch of its Zhuque-3 rocket – a reusable launch vehicle that could significantly boost China’s space industry by lowering the cost of lifting equipment…

Even though dogs and cats are the most common household pets, they certainly aren’t the only ones. Millions of people also have scaly, slimy, or feathered friends to brighten their homes—and even their workplaces!

Kevin, the Eclectus Parrot, is…

New genomic evidence unmasks the biological pathways driving erectile dysfunction, linking cardiometabolic disease and addiction traits to ED risk through shared genetic roots.

Study: Multi-ancestry investigation of the genomics of…