Category: 7. Science

Hatchling loggerhead sea turtles begin life with a remarkable challenge. They crawl from the beach into the surf and then navigate thousands of miles across open ocean – alone, with no experience, and no adults to guide them.

A new study from…

Rather than assuming that modern Mars is too cold and dry to sustain liquid water, new evidence is challenging that belief. Data from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) instrument has revealed unusually…

High above Earth, an astronaut looked down on northern Ethiopia. Below, Lake Tana, about 1,200 square miles across, held two dark islands whose monasteries guard the mummified remains of ancient emperors.

In the image, the lake glows an unhealthy…

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be.

In a new study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, a team…

Two enormous structures that sit at the border between the Earth’s mantle and its core have puzzled scientists for decades, defying reigning theories of how our planet came to be.

In a new study published in the journal Nature…