Category: 7. SciTech

Microplastics may be burrowing into arteries and triggering heart disease, especially in men, according to a new study.

Tiny plastic particles…

Daily consumers of bottled water ingest over 90,000 more microplastic particles than people who drink tap water, according to a new review of…

A reserve of natural gas bubbling from a cage of ice discovered on the ocean floor to the west of Greenland may be the deepest gas hydrate cold seep on record, and it happens to be teeming with animal life.

The Freya gas hydrate mounds were discovered during the Ocean Census Arctic Deep…

A grapefruit-sized dinosaur egg from a fossil bed in China gave paleontologists a huge surprise. Rather than a dinosaur embryo or sediment, it was filled with sparkling crystals of calcite lining the inner shell – a natural dinosaur geode.

This rare occurrence provides researchers with…

A weird-looking parasitic plant has discarded all its photosynthesis machinery – and nevertheless has found a way to thrive.

A new analysis of seven Balanophora species has found that these crazy plants have reduced their plastid genomes, or plastomes – the parts of their cells that…

Sarah Sajedi was visiting Phi Phi Island, Thailand, when she was dazzled by the beautiful scenery of the Andaman Sea. However, when she looked down at her feet, she saw that the white sandy beach was covered with plastic debris, most of which was from plastic bottles.

After many years in the…

People deemed “cool” boast six surprisingly similar personality traits across cultures, according to a new study that hints at the role…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.

Standing in the middle of a field, we can easily forget that we live on a round planet. We’re so small in comparison to the Earth that from our point of view, it looks flat.

The world is full of such shapes—ones that look flat to…