Category: 7. SciTech

Beneath the quiet plains and bustling cities of the U.S. and Canada, an ancient process is slowly playing out. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, pieces of North America’s oldest and most stable rock are dripping into the Earth’s mantle. Yes, you read that…

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface.

The…

Grid batteries have a halo effect for other power generators too. Most thermal power plants—coal, gas, nuclear—prefer to run at a steady pace. Ramping up and down to match demand takes time and costs money, but with batteries soaking up some of the variability, thermal power plants can stay…

It was just another descent into the inky deep when it appeared: a ghostly shape hovering in midwater, delicate and otherworldly. 

For a few fleeting minutes, the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian held steady in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, recording the first-ever footage of a…

It was just another descent into the inky deep when it appeared: a ghostly shape hovering in midwater, delicate and otherworldly. 

For a few fleeting minutes, the remotely operated vehicle SuBastian held steady in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, recording the first-ever footage of a…

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth’s most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a body into multicellular tissue when the pressure’s on.

“The advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone,” the international team who made…

NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just captured its first image of the Curiosity rover driving along the red planet’s surface.

The…

It was just hours after Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands that the stop-work order arrived in Don Ingber’s inbox.

Ingber, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering’s founding director, said the April 14 order targeted two of his organ-on-a-chip…

Whales, dolphins, and other marine mammals are washing up dead along the California coastline.

A team from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

Satellite observations had shown alternating stripes of light-colored and dark-colored rock in this area. In late March, Perseverance excavated one of the light-colored formations and collected a sample. In the process it discovered the strange rock—which has been named “St. Paul’s Bay.”