Category: 7. SciTech

It’s not every day that our planet erupts in a fiery outpouring from the ground and the sky at the same time and same place.

This week, as bright red flows of lava gushed down the steep slope of Mount Mayon in the Philippines – one of the world’s most active volcanoes – the night sky…

Researchers have discovered a new type of giant virus, which replicates in a way we’ve never seen before.

Stranger still, this entity could give us clues to the very origins of complex life.

Viruses sit outside the standard tree of life, as they’re made of segments of genetic material rather…

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…