Science
Scientists trigger earthquakes on purpose in Switzerland to learn how to reduce risks
Researchers have made the ground shake in southern Switzerland, triggering thousands of tiny earthquakes in a monitored setting, as they seek to discover seismicity insights that could reduce risks.
Glass threads spun from volcano’s bubbly magma look like human hair
Most people associate ash and churning lava with volcanic activity, but volcanoes also produce formations that look unnervingly like human ponytails.
Scientists decipher the geological history of the Grand Canyon in the US
Research is now providing insight into how and when the Colorado River, whose continuous might has carved out the Grand Canyon over millions of years, came to flow through the region.
Scientists detect a tiny, icy world with an atmosphere beyond Pluto
A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbours a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created by volcanic eruptions or a comet strike.
Several thousand 'fireballs' streak across the sky every day
The Earth is under assault. Space rocks are constantly hurtling towards us, slamming into the atmosphere and often exploding into fireballs that both delight and alarm.
These scientists dive beneath Arctic and Antarctic ice to discover its secrets
The Polar Scientific Diving class is a programme designed to train the next generation of scientists and researchers to dive beneath the Arctic and Antarctic ice to study the flora and fauna below.
Archaeologists unearth wreckage of British WW II plane in German mine
Aircraft debris and human remains have been discovered in an open-cast mine in western Germany.
Sperm can't swim properly in space, study says
The researchers put samples through a simulation mimicking both the female reproductive system and the zero-gravity conditions of space and found that the usually inerrant swimmers quickly lost their bearings.
Researchers find traces of space travel in earth's atmosphere
Researchers have detected measurable traces left in the upper atmosphere when a rocket stage burns up, finding about ten times more lithium atoms than normal at around 96 kilometres, roughly 20 hours after re-entry.
Freaky and mystical: Fungi aficionados are helping scientists learn more about them
Scientists have only documented about 155,000 species of fungi, 6% of the millions they believe are out there.
