There are a million and one ways to die in space , whether its from micrometeoroid impacts shredding your ship or solar flares frying its electronics , drowning in your own sweat during a spacewa… [+14018 chars]
A type of bacteria that live in our mouths and guts send signals — in the form of lipids — through our blood, which could be good or bad, depending on the context. A multidisciplinary collaboration o… [+13259 chars]
The Orion Nebula is a well-known feature in the night sky and is visible in small backyard telescopes. Orion is a busy place. The region is known for active star formation and other phenomena. It’s o… [+7487 chars]
Microplastics are the breakdown products of the plastic objects we use in everyday life wrappings, packaging, bottles, synthetic clothing, and kitchen ware, for example. None of these plastics is bio… [+4355 chars]
Jupiter is more than huge. To put it into perspective it is equivalent to 318 Earths or twice the size of all the rest of our solar systems planets combined. If thats not scary enough to think about… [+1169 chars]
Lake Balkhash, the largest lake in Central Asia, is featured in this false-colour image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission.Click on the image below to explore it in its full 10 m resolutio… [+2180 chars]
On August 27, 1883, a sound emerged from the Earth louder than anything recorded before or since. The volcanic eruption bellowed out from Krakatau, an uninhabited island between Java and Sumatra in … [+33056 chars]
In May 1997, a large earthquake shook the Kermadec Islands region in the South Pacific Ocean. A little over 20 years later, in September 2018, a second big earthquake hit the same location, its waves… [+5637 chars]
Hermit crabs are found in oceans all over the world, occupying habitats that range from shallow coastal waters to the deepest of seas. They have soft, fragile abdomens that need to be protected from … [+4997 chars]
Humans have always been amazed with the glinting, sparkling minerals that our Earth produces. But do all shining jewels originate underground? These objects do mostly come from geological processes a… [+4066 chars]
The octopus is an exceptional organism with an extremely complex brain and cognitive abilities that are unique among invertebrates. So much so that in some ways it has more in common with vertebrates… [+4484 chars]
Tea is useful for all kinds of things, including caffeinating plenty of writers worldwide. There are also many varieties of it, some of which advocates claim to have superpowers regarding the health … [+3450 chars]
