Category: 7. SciTech

In an abyssal chasm yawning deep beneath the Indian Ocean, a vast ‘city of the dead’ has slowly been growing in the frigid darkness.

Along some 1,200 kilometers (745 miles) of the Diamantina Fracture Zone, which splits the ocean floor between Australia and Antarctica, and reaches depths of…

China has become the first country in the world to operate an underwater data center, or UDC, powered by wind. Located off the coast of Shanghai, the complex represents a significant advance in the country’s strategy to secure energy supplies in the face of the accelerated growth of artificial…

In the pitch-dark gloom beneath the South Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Argentina, a magical wonderland lies hidden.

It’s the deep-sea domain of scuttling crabs and spindly sea stars, of ethereal jellyfish delicately rippling in ocean currents, of elusive fish and curious octopuses, and…

We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots.

The forest, made up of a single tree known as Pando (“I spread” in Latin), has 47,000 stems (all with the same DNA) sprouting from a shared…