Category: 7. SciTech

Biologists have long believed that having a large brain, relative to your body, might go hand-in-hand with being part of a particularly social species.

This is called the social brain hypothesis, and it holds up pretty well for a particular branch of the animal family tree: ours.

We share…

Rubies — seared in the popular imagination as sparkling adornments for Dorothy’s slippers in “The Wizard of Oz” and as loot spilling out of pirates’ treasure chests — are more than just ornaments. The precious gemstones help scientists understand the natural world.

Newly…

This year’s El Niño is shaping up to be among the strongest on record, and it’s set to create chaotic weather around the world.

A new study suggests that there could be a way to mitigate some of the impacts of future El Niños and global warming: dimming the sun.

El Niño develops naturally…

Most of our planet’s crust is forged in a thalassic factory human eyes never see.

Across 65,000 kilometers (40,400 miles) of the ocean floor, a system of mid-ocean ridges marks the boundaries where Earth’s tectonic plates meet.

There, in ocean depths far from the light of the Sun, cataclysmic…