Category: 7. Science

As global plastic production has ballooned, small fragments of plastic have infiltrated rivers, sea ice, and even our brains. When the minuscule fibers and shards seep into soils, they change how the soil interacts with water, according to a…

In their study, first author Palash Kumawat of the Geosciences Department at the University of Bremen and his colleagues used lipid biomarker analyses to decipher the survival strategies of the microbes in this harsh ecosystem. The high pH…

A young boy laid to rest three centuries ago in northern Italy has become a scientific first: the only nearly complete “green mummy” ever documented.

Archaeologists discovered the boy’s copper-box tomb in 1987 beneath an ancient villa in…

A tethered underwater robot found more than 1,000 fish nests in Antarctica’s western Weddell Sea. The nests are arranged in clear patterns rather than scattered.

The discovery sits in seafloor terrain that has been exposed after a giant iceberg…

Snakebite envenoming is one of the most neglected yet deadly health crises in the world, claiming up to 150,000 lives each year and leaving many survivors with permanent injuries. The World Health Organization recognises it as a major tropical…

On the evening of 5 November, the UAE will be treated to a rare celestial spectacle as the Beaver Moon reaches its fullest and closest point…

It seems Halloween had a visitor from beyond our solar system. Astronomers at Arizona’s Lowell Observatory managed to snap what’s believed to be the first optical image of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS after its fiery swing around the Sun —…