Category: 9. Sci-Tech

A single-celled organism squirming about in the searing waters of California’s Lassen Volcanic National Park has just set a record for heat tolerance.

The newly named Incendiamoeba cascadensis – meaning “fire amoeba from the Cascades”, as

An Abu Dhabi scientist was part of a team of researchers who mapped temperatures on a planet 400 million light years away – and found that some areas are as hot as 3,500°C.

Dr Jasmina Blecic, from New York University Abu Dhabi, and her fellow…

“Without intervention over the last two decades, the model shows that grouper and emperor populations on the Great Barrier Reef would also have consistently declined under increasing fishing pressure.”

The research also considered the benefits of…

What can water in Jupiter’s atmosphere teach scientists about the planet’s composition? This is what a recent study published in the *Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences* hopes to address as a team of scientists…

A new analysis of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu has turned up traces of tryptophan, an amino acid more often linked with Thanksgiving dinners than with airless space rocks. The result, drawn from samples NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…

What steps can be taken to improve and enhance the lifetime of space solar cells? This is what a recent study published in Joule hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated new methods for improving both the…