Category: 7. Science

Imagine snow falling in the deep ocean. It sounds strange, but something very similar happens every day beneath the waves. Tiny particles drift slowly downward through the water like snowflakes.

Scientists call this marine snow. This quiet fall…

“When lahars are significantly large, the signal can be detected up to 20 minutes before the mudslide reaches the monitoring station,” says Béjar. This all depends on the AI’s ability to correctly distinguish a lahar from another type of…

Researchers have shed new light on how a unusual rock formation in Oman was created, which could reveal new details about the Earth’s ability to store carbon dioxide (CO₂) for millions of years.

The study, led by Keele University, in…

​Long before humans cultivated crops or sailed between continents, a group of plant viruses was already evolving among wild plants in Eurasia. According to a new international study​ published in Plant Disease, the ancestors of modern…

Around 15 percent of near-Earth asteroids have small moons, which suggests binary systems are fairly common. Many of the larger asteroid pairs have likely formed via collisions in the main belt; however, smaller ones, such as near-Earth binaries…