Category: 9. Sci-Tech

The first stage of SpaceX’s Starship megarocket has made it to the launch pad ahead of next week’s test flight.

On Wednesday (Oct. 8), SpaceX posted photos on X showing the giant booster, known as Super Heavy, making the move to the orbital…

Mount Edgecumbe volcano in Southeast Alaska sits in a place where a volcano shouldn’t really be sitting.

Research underway with new federal funding aims to solve that mystery, learn how magma forms beneath the reawakened volcano and reveal the…

Newly hatched European great tits learn life skills less from their parents and more from siblings and other flock mates, according to a study published October 9^th in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Sonja Wild of the Max Planck…

Four subtle tweaks to an enzyme could help explain why naked mole rats’ can live for nearly 30 years, an unusually long lifespan for a creature its size.

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Bats are generally viewed as harmless, if spooky, creatures of the night. But scientists have revealed a more savage side, after witnessing a greater noctule bat – Europe’s largest bat species – hunting, killing and devouring a robin…

For the first time ever, astronomers have imaged two black holes orbiting each other, finally offering visual proof for the existence of black hole pairs.

Spotted through the faint fluctuations of radio light captured by telescopes both on the…

Rare hereditary diseases can be identified in patients and specific mutations in tumour cells detected – DNA sequencing revolutionised biomedical research decades ago. In recent years, new sequencing methods (next-generation sequencing) in…