Special Fishing Weights Could Help Save Hammerhead Sharks
The global population of hammerhead sharks, a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, has plummeted by 89% in the last 20 years, largely due…
Body Language Is a Better Indicator of Intense Emotions Than Facial Expressions
Intense emotional experiences are more easily read in body language than in watching facial expressions. Facial clues in most studies rely on a set of…
Study Strengthens Link Between Human Activities and Climate Change
Comparing 20 of the latest climate models against 33 years of satellite data has led the scientists of a newly published study to believe, with…
Grand Canyon Thought to Be 65 Million Years Older Than Previous Estimates
A new analysis of the mineral grains from the bottom of the Grand Canyon indicates that it was formed about 70 million years ago, during…
Kitti’s Hog-Nosed Bat Is World’s Smallest Mammal
The Kitti’s hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), sometimes referred to as the bumblebee bat due to its diminutive size, was discovered in 1970s and could arguably…
Hubble Views Galaxy ESO 318-13
This is a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy ESO 318-13 and other more distant galaxies, which are located millions of light-years…
As Supersymmetry Fails, Physicists Looking for New Models
As the Large Hadron Collider has been unable to find any of the particles suggested by supersymmetry, theoretical particle physicists are trying to change their…
Lines on Crocodiles’ Crania Are Cracks in Skin, Not Scales
The “scales” on a crocodile’s cranium aren’t really scales, but simple physical cracks rather than developmentally programmed scales that cover the rest of a crocodile’s…
New Finding Challenges Theories of How Rocky, Earth-Scale Planets Form
While viewing the young brown dwarf ISO-Oph 102, an international team of astronomers pinpointed carbon monoxide gas around the brown dwarf and found that the…
Dryland Farmers Work With Little Water
A new generation of extremely efficient farmers sees irrigation as a non-viable alternative. These farmers use dryland farming, which has helped farmers to get through…
Epidemiologists Trying to Track Down Novel Coronavirus
The new coronavirus, linked to different cases in Qatar and Saudi Arabia, was named HCoV-EMC, short for human coronavirus and the Erasmus Medical Center in…
Exposomics Looks to Tie Environmental Exposure to Biological Triggers of Disease
European researchers are going to monitor thousands of people by giving them smartphones, which will record the chemicals to which they are exposed to every…
A Comprehensive Review on the Ice Melt in Antarctica & Greenland
A new study has come up with the most accurate estimate yet for the melting of the polar ice sheets, possibly ending decades of uncertainty…
Simulated Brain Performs Well at Simple Tasks
The Semantic Pointer Architecture Unified Network (Spaun) was created by theoretical neuroscientists to simulate complex behavior from fewer neurons. The scientists published their findings in…
Fabric-Covered Blades Could Make Wind Turbines Cheaper & More Efficient
GE’s latest wind technology development is fabric-covered wind turbine blades, which are supposed to even more efficient that the fiberglass that is used now. The…
Hubble Views Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy NGC 5253
A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows irregular galaxy NGC 5253, a Blue Compact Dwarf galaxy located at a distance of about 12…
Telomerase Gene Therapy Extends Mouse Lifespan by 24%
Inducing cells to express telomerase, the enzyme which is supposed to slow down the metabolic clock, has enabled researchers boost the lifespan of mouse by…
First Electron Microscope Image of DNA Double Helix
The structure of DNA was originally discovered by using X-ray crystallography, which involves scattering X-rays off atoms in crystallized arrays of DNA to form complex…