Category: Science & Engineering

Octopuses tend to keep secrets, but we’ve just learnt how they achieve their extraordinary dexterity. The fine control these almost-alien animals have over each of their eight arms is at least partially down to the segmentation of the nervous system circuitry that governs it. This discovery by researchers at the University of Chicago helps us […]

An “unusually large” ice volcano in Iceland could be about to blow after more than 130 earthquakes hit the region in a five-hour period, experts say. The earthquake swarm began in the northwestern region of Iceland’s Bárðarbunga volcano at 6:00 a.m. local time Tuesday morning (Jan. 14), with the largest reaching a magnitude of 5.1 […]

Astronomers may have “saved cosmology” by gathering the largest sample yet of some of the most ancient galaxies ever seen, the so-called “little red dots” observed by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The team behind this research found the majority of the ancient galaxies in their sample — which existed earlier than 1.5 billion […]

A glass of milk a day could help keep bowel cancer away – or so finds a study by Oxford University and Cancer Research UK. The research suggests that increasing daily milk intake by as little as one glass could have a significant impact on lowering the likelihood of developing bowel cancer. There are nearly […]

A woman’s sudden ear pain, hearing loss and dizziness turned out to have a disturbing cause: a tick infestation in her ear canal. The 21-year-old, from Dharan, Nepal, had been experiencing “piercing” pain in her right ear, coupled with progressive hearing loss, vertigo, nausea and tinnitusor ringing in the ear. These symptoms came on suddenly […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida — Get ready, moon: Two private landers have made it to space and will soon be headed your way! The two lunar landers — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and Resilience, built by the Japanese company ispace — lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket early this morning (Jan. 15) from NASA’s […]

Earthquakes are some of the most devastating catastrophes our planet can unleash, yet we are still all-too-often taken by surprise when one strikes. New research has revealed details of the lead-up to a tremor: a slow and steady period of displacements at a well-defined stress point in Earth’s crust is a required trigger for giant […]

Pink fire retardant is raining from the skies in Los Angeles as firefighters try everything they can to contain several deadly wildfires. Air tankers have dropped thousands of gallons of pink — or reddish — fire retardant to slow the spread of wildfireswhich have killed at least 24 people at the time of this reporting. […]

The moon is about to gain its first tiny house. And not just any small house, but an iconic Swedish red house with white corners. Launching on a Japanese moon lander and mounted to the front bumper of the mission’s rover is the “Moonhouse,” a project by Mikael Genberg that has been 25 years in […]

A colossal ice core sample drilled in Antarctica may contain the oldest, unbroken timeline of Earth’s climate, stretching back more than a million years. Laid horizontally, the entire ice core’s 2,800-meter (9,186-foot) length could extend across San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, and then some. Each meter-long segment contains up to 13,000 years of deep, compressed […]