Category: 7. Science

Significant shifts in wind patterns increased global carbon stores and could hold the key to understanding today’s changing climate

A major shift in temperature and wind more than 20,000 years ago sparked…

The science of the origin of life is on the threshold of a new era. A team of researchers led by Robert Hazen has developed an artificial intelligence system that can detect traces of ancient life in rocks, even if the molecules…

Cancer research, drug safety testing and ageing biology may all gain a major boost from a new fluorescent sensor developed at Utrecht University. This new tool allows scientists to watch DNA damage and repair unfold in real time…

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of astronomers have captured a mid-infrared image of a system of four serpentine spirals of dust around two aging Wolf-Rayet stars in…

Over the course of billions of years, the Universe has steadily been evolving. Thanks to the expansion of the Universe, we are able to “see” back in time to watch that evolution, almost from the beginning.

But every once in a while, we see…

Human beings are pretty familiar with the concept of “ice ages.” Not only is their ample physical evidence to suggest that glacial periods occurred during the Pleistocene epoch – which lasted from ca. 2.58 million to 11,700 years ago,…

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket aced its first-ever landing last week — and even managed to stay pretty, despite the ordeal.

The milestone occurred on Nov. 13, during the launch of NASA’s twin ESCAPADE Mars probes from Florida’s Space Coast. New…

Cave minerals from far northern Greenland show that the High Arctic once thawed and flowed with liquid water. The new record points to mean annual air temperatures roughly 25 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today.

Those minerals grew between…