Using a “Fitbit for fish”-style activity tracker, researchers are learning more about the health and behavior of fish. Using many sensors, the first gadget of its type records what a fish sees and feels in live time. The biosensor, a ...
Ecuador, in contrast to other governments that have struggled to preserve human rights, has gone forward and determined that wild animals have specific rights under the law, such as the right to live. The February 7-2 court decision was a ...
Experts are worried about an impending environmental catastrophe of unimaginable scale: Over the following 3 decades, aggressive pests are expected to decimate as many as 1.4 million trees throughout the US. The emerald ash borer (also known as Agrilus planipennis), ...
If you remember playing games on the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive console, it surely means you had an awesome childhood! That was an amazing gaming machine for its time, although it was based on 16-bits. Among the top-rated games available for ...
Meteors come close to Earth very often, and we all have to be thankful for nature that most of them get completely obliterated in the sky due to air friction. Another imposing meteor was spotted in the skies above New ...
Harsh weather is no longer a strange thing around the world. However, between too cold and too hot, some odd phenomenon arises. Texas is currently experiencing a strange phenomenon where winter storms are terribly wrong, and trees can’t longer take ...
Recent research finds that flowers found wholly preserved in globs of amber grew at the foot of dinosaurs, implying that certain blooming plants in South Africa today have stayed unmodified for 99 million years. The two blooms flowered initially in ...
Consequently, little is known about their migrations and much less about how illnesses spread among puma communities. A new study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution by researchers from the University of Minnesota, Colorado State University, and Colorado Parks and ...
The NASA TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) mission just discovered something significant: our own sun is remarkably well-behaved in comparison to its counterparts elsewhere in the cosmos. (Image courtesy of NASA/Solar Dynamics Observatory and Getty Images.) According to Universe Today, ...
What the Rise of Oxygen on Early Earth Tells us about Life on other Planets, and How it Have Evolved
Deeper knowledge of Earth’s atmosphere could help us find signs of life outside of our solar system. How did the Earth have enough oxygen to support animal life? In a study by McGill University, they found that oxygen levels rose ...