Sci-Fi

Meet the fat bears of Katmai National Park. Image: Bob Al-Greene/mashable By Mark Kaufman2018-10-02 10:00:00 UTC Welcome to Fat Bear Week at Mashable! Each fall, Katmai National Park holds a competition as Alaska’s brown bears […]

The competitors of the 2018 Fat Bear Week. Image: Bob Al-Greene/Mashable By Mark Kaufman2018-10-01 18:40:42 UTC Welcome to Fat Bear Week at Mashable! Each fall, Katmai National Park holds a competition as Alaska’s brown bears […]

This post is part of Science of Sci-Fi, Mashable‘s ongoing series dissecting the science (or lack of science) in our favorite sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books. Some days are so damaging to your faith […]

Scientists don’t expect to get their hands on Martian soil anytime soon, so they’re making their own. Created by University of Central Florida astrophysicists, this red soil, called Mars “simulant,” is designed to give researchers […]

Caught red-handed. Image: Leandro João Carneiro de Lima Moraes/ the National Institute of Amazonian Research/Youtube By Mark Kaufman2018-09-30 16:02:08 UTC Deep in the Amazon jungle, ecologist Leandro Moraes filmed a moth sucking the tears out […]

Earlier this year, Norway’s minister of international development visited Ghana. Minister Nikolai Astrup had a simple request: He wanted to spend some time with his team collecting trash from beaches in the developing nation.  His […]

Polish designer Roza Janusz has found a way to create fully edible, fully biodegradable food packaging out of a bacteria fermentation process. To produce the material, she starts with a kombucha SCOBY (aka symbiotic culture […]

Today in “that sounds nice,” a group of biologists studying termite colonies in southern Japan have discovered all-female colonies that function perfectly without even a single male termite being involved.  The lady termites, which reproduce […]

Monday through Friday of each week, the Norwegian Ice Service, a government agency within the Norwegian Meteorological Institute, tweets out rather dismal news about the state of the thawing Arctic. But these tweets aren’t intended […]

Nearly two weeks after Typhoon Mangkhut, the world’s strongest storm this year ravaged the South China Sea, killing over 64 people in the Philippines, a tsunami has hit the coastal Indonesian city of Palu. The […]