Category: 7. Science

A landmark study that claimed men enjoy an unfair advantage in scientific careers has been seriously challenged: a nearly identical rerun of the experiment has found that the opposite is true.

The results are all the more striking because a…

Sea urchins may just look like a ball of spikes waiting to be stepped on at the tide pool, but there’s much more to these barbed beasts than just roe and teeth.

New research reveals sea urchin nervous systems are far more complex than we knew….

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to spot a mid-infrared flare from Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central black hole. The flash lasted about 40 minutes and revealed fresh clues about how these outbursts start.

The signal…

Scientists from Tel Aviv University have revealed how our ancestors transformed elephant hunting from opportunistic…

A new world map shows how Earth’s crust is loaded and where it is closest to failure. The release compiles 100,842 stress entries, more than double since 2016. 

The project is run at the GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences with partners at The…

In 2015, a team of scientists began digging through frozen cliffs in Spitsbergen. The location was remote, the work was exhausting, and the expectations were modest. Then, a pattern of bones started to appear – dense, layered, and strangely…

Robert Hunziker 

Antarctica has moved to “the front of the line” as a global warming threat that’s already well beyond expectations, and it’s happening fast. Based upon statements by polar scientists over the past 18 months, it warrants a…