When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It’s an epic burial at sea, something ...

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The CosmicWatch device costs only $100 to make, making it accessible for both high school students and spacecraft operators.

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Growing up, we all had to do all kinds of science projects in school. For Baby Boomers, here are several classic science ...

Scientists from Mexico’s National Autonomous University have created the first three-dimensional image of the Popocatépetl ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

The perfect relaxing thing to sneak off and watch whilst your family argues over the post-Christmas dinner game of Monopoly.

It’s winter, and the SciFri team is already dreaming of warmer weather. How about a mind vacation to one of the hottest places on earth, an erupting volcano? Tamsin Mather has trekked to volcanoes in ...

As the year 2025 comes to a close, we reflect on the historic past year of volcanic activity on the Island of Hawaii. Thirty-eight episodes of lava fountaining at the summit of Kilauea remind us that ...

Mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reached its perihelion, or its closest point to the Sun, earlier this year, shedding copious amounts of ice and dust in the process. “We were all surprised,” ...

Hayli Gubbi, a shield volcano in northern Ethiopia, erupted for several hours on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 23 — the first eruption since the start of the Holocene. When you purchase through links on ...