Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Remember back in 2018 when there was a discovery of a briny “lake” underground near the Martian south pole? Pepperidge Farm probably does, and anyone that works there that’s interested in space exploration will be disappointed to…

Half a mile beneath the ocean’s surface, a secretive creature drifts in the dark. It has eight tentacles with glowing tips, and a ‘cloak’ of webbed skin that it can wrap itself up in.

It is the vampire squid, and it looks like something out…

A rock on Mars spilled a surprising yellow treasure after Curiosity accidentally cracked through its unremarkable exterior.

When the rover rolled its 899-kilogram (1,982-pound) body over the fragile lump of mineral in May of last year, the…

darkest fabric inspired by riflebird’s ultrablack feathers

Researchers at Cornell University have developed a method that allows them to create the darkest fabric ever made, inspired by the ultrablack feathers of the magnificent riflebird. In…

A type of black fungus found at the Chornobyl nuclear disaster site has demonstrated the ability to convert radiation into usable energy, a discovery that may be applied to space exploration.

According to Interesting Engineering…

angle: The space (usually measured in degrees) between two intersecting lines or surfaces at or close to the point where they meet.

atmosphere: The envelope of gases surrounding Earth, another planet or a moon.

disk: A round, flat and…