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 ...
According to a recent research, having more body fat is a risk factor for adults’ impaired cognitive function, such as processing speed. Even when the researchers considered cardiovascular risk factors, such as diabetes or high blood pressure, or vascular brain ...
Scientists Made Disturbing Discovery in the Greenland Ice Sheet, Made Possible by Better Simulations
In the 2004 film “The Day After Tomorrow,” scientist Jack Hall examines the Antarctic past only to discover an oncoming Ice Age, popularizing paleoclimatology. Paleoclimatology may help us understand the present and future implications of climate change. The new Greenland ...
A team of researchers led by a university in British Columbia discovered numerous new species of coronavirus, some of which were discovered in unexpected areas such as animal excrement. The findings were produced by a former UBC post-doctoral research fellow ...
New intriguing study highlights the importance of a somehow odd connection: sleep and physical activity. Researchers aimed to figure out as much as they could to address some long-standing hypotheses. The study focused on middle-aged women as they entered menopause. ...
Ice Memory is a daring ongoing international project enrolled in preserving natural artificats before global warming destroys them. Recent mission witnessed the extraction of the oldest ice in the Alps region, now a significant part of a new study. Here ...
Oxygen will always be a necessity for most life forms on Earth, and global warming isn’t helping at all. A new report reveals how oxygen is rapidly disappearing from Earth’s lakes, threatening ecosystems and aquatic life. Researchers examined many samples ...
Did you know that sleep and memory are connected? Scientists succeeded in finding such a link, and now we have more details about it. A new study reveals intriguing patterns of our brain activity that can unlock doors to our ...
Saturn has puzzled scientists’ work for decades due to its mysterious structure that’s so challenging to probe. Recent data, however, shed light on a subject that intrigues us all: what’s like inside Saturn? Thanks to the gas giant’s unique ring ...