Category: 7. SciTech

‘Extinct’ volcanoes that haven’t erupted for tens of thousands of years may not actually be inactive, but silently accumulating huge reservoirs of magma to fuel future outbursts.

This worrying revelation comes from a team of volcanologists at ETH Zurich in Switzerland, who mapped the…

A Sumatran orangutan has been filmed for the first time crossing a human-made canopy bridge constructed to help the endangered animals bypass a tarred road on the Indonesian island, an NGO said Sunday.

Conservation group Tangguh Hutan Khatulistiwa, in partnership with the UK-based charity…

Antibiotic resistance is a fast-growing public health crisis, causing more than a million global deaths annually and contributing to nearly 5 million more. These infections are more difficult and more expensive to treat than typical infections and are responsible for longer hospital stays,…

As you may have heard via a barrage of internet memes, evolution can’t get enough of crab-like forms. The body shape of crabs has arisen on many separate occasions in natural history, in a phenomenon known as ‘carcinization’.

However, one feature sets true crabs (Brachyura) apart from their…