Category: Science & Tech

The dream of heading out to space and colonising distant celestial bodies isn’t one that is unique to the time we live in. It is one that humans have aspired for long and continue to strive towards, despite the problems plaguing the only known planet that supports life as we know it: Earth. Even as...

 A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ​cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally ‌named and described in more than a century. The cat, called Tilcayo by local communities, is ​part of a group called tiger cats found across much...

 A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia’s ​cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally ‌named and described in more than a century. The cat, called Tilcayo by local communities, is ​part of a group called tiger cats found across much...

As NASA and China speed up their lunar space programmes, a more-than-temporary human settlement on the moon inches closer to reality. Space agencies with these plans are targeting the moon’s south pole region, where permanently shadowed craters are supposed to hold large quantities of water ice, which a human base can use as a water...

— Delin Paul Recent research has actually suggested that this description is misleading. Many moths may not be deliberately flying towards the lights but because artificial lights interfere with a technique they use to keep themselves flying in the right direction. For an insect flying at night, the brightest part of the natural environment is...

Herpetologists first discovered in 1933 that rattlesnakes are immune to their own venom. Native to the Americas, rattlesnakes are pit vipers, a family of vipers with a heat-sensing pit organ between each nostril and eye. Venom resistance in snakes comes in two forms: either the targets in their bodies have evolved such that the venom...

In a report published on September 10, Anthropic — the U.S.-based company that builds and provides the Claude AI model — said it blocked users from using the model for a range of potentially harmful activities across cybersecurity, surveillance, and biotechnology between December 2025 and August 2026. While Anthropic has in general been more open...

North Korea’s nuclear tests reawakened sleeping faults While underground nuclear explosions usually set off brief aftershocks fading in weeks, North Korea’s tests at Mt. Mantap did the opposite, causing earthquake activity intensifying over years after testing ceased, new data show. Analysing 17 years of regional seismic records, scientists spotted 1,400 small quakes around the Punggye-ri...