Category: 7. SciTech

Mars is a pretty horrible place for any creature used to life on Earth. The average surface temperature is -63°C (-81°F) and doesn’t reach above freezing anywhere except right on the equator, during the summer.

The atmospheric pressure is equivalent to Earth’s at an altitude of 35km…

A moose in Minnesota stumbles onto the road. She circles, confused and dazed, unable to orient herself or recognize the danger of an oncoming semitruck.

What kills her is the impact of 13 tons of steel, but what causes her death is more complicated. Tunneling through her brain is a worm that…

Current estimates suggest there are over 12,000 artificial satellites in orbit around Earth. Many of these perform specific tasks such as monitoring Earth’s environment, aiding communication and navigation, spying, and so on.

Some objects are merely defunct satellites or flotsam and jetsam…

Strange ‘leopard spot’ markings on a Martian rock could finally be the sign we’ve been waiting for that alien microbes once lived on the Red Planet.

A detailed study of the rocks has revealed the intricate patterns are “the clearest sign of life we’ve ever found on Mars,” according…

Work at Boston’s Museum of Science isn’t always glamorous. Someone’s gotta clean the lizard boogers.

In a new behind-the-scenes video, a museum employee cheerfully shares their experience cleaning snot from the glass of Rocky the chuckwalla’s enclosure.

The white stuff they are mopping up is…

The iron-rich core at the centre of our planet has been a crucial part of Earth’s evolution. The core not only powers the magnetic field which shields our atmosphere and oceans from solar radiation, it also influences plate tectonics which have continually reshaped the continents.

But despite…

We’re already familiar with the ways to artificially restore our bodies to their natural peak. Wearing prescription glasses can correct your vision, and hearing aids can mitigate against hearing loss.

Now, new tech is on the way to enhance the human body and help us do more than ever before.

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A tiny, reptilian fossil has been excavated from layers of ancient sandstone, where it was preserved for over 240 million years – predating the dinosaurs.

The little lizard-like creature pinches the record for the oldest known lepidosaur. Until now, this title was held by Wirtembergia,…