Category: 7. SciTech

If your carefully tended crop of beans ever comes under attack from caterpillars, you should know it’s not totally helpless.

In fact, a cavalry of caterpillar-munching wasps may already be on their way.

Bean plants have a remarkable ability to summon wasps from thin air when caterpillars…

A tiny blue octopus that lives in the deep sea off the coast of the Galápagos Islands is so small that it can fit in the palm of a hand. And as a team of researchers coordinated by Chicago’s Field Museum announced in a new study just published in the journal Zootaxa, it now has an official…

NASA finally presented the details of its phased plan to create the first lunar base at the moon’s south pole. Although the construction of a space research center that will allow a sustained human presence will take at least a decade, the missions that will lay its technological and symbolic…

You probably don’t think much about the blood running through your veins on a daily basis.

Like the neurons firing in your brain, or the constant in-and-out of your breath, it’s just always there in the background – an inconspicuous feature of your body helping to keep you alive.

To some…

The fossilized backbones of what appeared to be woolly mammoths have turned out to come from an entirely different and unexpected animal.

Archaeologist Otto Geist first discovered the bones on an expedition in 1951 through the Alaskan interior, in a prehistoric geographic region known as