Category: 9. Sci-Tech

Picture an astronaut on the Moon in 2035, reaching for a crisp lettuce leaf grown in lunar soil simulant, gazing upon Earth which is visible through the window. It sounds like science fiction, but a global collaboration of scientists is…

Touch a metal door handle on a dry day and you might get a small static shock, an annoying but harmless release of built up electrical charge. Now imagine that same phenomenon happening constantly in the swirling dust devils that race…

Have scientists finally confirmed the existence of the first exomoon? This is what a recent study accepted for publication in *Astronomy & Astrophysics* hopes to address as a large international team of researchers investigated new…

The elusive ‘vampire squid from hell’ has just yielded the largest cephalopod genome ever sequenced, a monster clocking in at more than 11 billion base pairs – more than twice as large as the biggest squid genomes.

Hidden in its mix of A, T,…

The days continue to get shorter and to further remind you the winter solstice approaches, December’s full moon is known as the longest night moon. That December full moon, also called the ‘cold moon’, is set to rise amid the longest nights of…