Category: 7. Science

Wildfire season isn’t just about charred forests and hazy skies anymore. The smoke from those fires is doing something sneaky – and scientists say we’ve been underestimating just how much it’s disrupting the air around us.

When wildfires…

Our cosmos seems, at times, like one impossibly vast factory, just pumping out mysteries.

The deeper we peer, the more we learn – but each new discovery stirs up a plethora of new puzzles to solve, like a swarm of fascinating science bees. Continue Reading

“Plastic production has sharply increased over the last 70 years. In 1950, the world produced just two million tonnes,” according to the website Our World in Data. That figure grew to over 450 million tonnes…

Climate science has often been compared to solving a grand puzzle. Each new study reveals another piece, showing us not only how our planet works today but also how it might transform in the future.

A recent study published in the journal Earth…

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After all, what you don’t use, you lose. That goes for muscle—but also for bone, the respiratory system, and the pelvic floor. Regular exercise also improves the non-REM phase (deep sleep in which the eyes do not move), which also decreases…

A minuscule, 1.6 inch fish fossil from southwestern Alberta, called Acronichthys maccognoi, is rewriting part of the freshwater family tree.

The Late Cretaceous skeleton carries hallmark features of otophysans – the vast supergroup that today…

The North Atlantic subpolar gyre, a system of ocean currents pivotal to global climate regulation, is showing signs of instability that could lead to significant environmental shifts. Recent research published in Science Advances has raised…

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