Science

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden listens to a discussion of “the scientific and technological roadmap that will lead to the discovery of potentially habitable worlds among the stars” July 14, 2014 in Washington, DC. Most prominent among the methods NASA will search the universe for habitable exoplanets will be the deployment of the James Webb Space Telescope, with a mirror of ... Read More »

Astronomers have detected very fast bursts of radio waves coming from deep in outer space and they don’t know the source. Scientists initially detected the pulses at the Parkes Observatory in Australia, but the bursts were not confirmed by another radio telescope facility until now. Read More »

The Department of Natural Resources is confirming that a local woman caught a Pacu fish in Lake St. Clair last Wednesday. The fish is native South America, and measured at about 14” long. Read More »

The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that seismic blasting off New Jersey’s coast can proceed, the environmental group Clean Ocean Action said. A federal appeals court has cleared the path for seismic testing that will blast the ocean floor off Long Beach Island with loud noises as part of a climate change research project. Read More »

According to a report from the University of Arizona, researchers have found that an animal, once believed to have disappeared from North America before humans ever arrived, may have roamed the continent longer than previously thought. Researchers from the University of Arizona and elsewhere also say it was probably on the list of prey for some of North America’s earliest ... Read More »

According to a study published in the Journal Genetics, the domestication with tameness as a goal results in genetic alterations that affect a group of embryonic stem cells. Even Charles Darwin has wondered why domesticated animals seem to have so many features and behaviors common with each other. Read More »

A non-profit group is trying to create a bit of buzz around our local bee population. “Hives for Humanity” has set up a mentorship program at Vancouver’s Milross Garden that kicks off today. Organizer Sarah Common says it’s meant to raise awareness about the pollinators. Read More »

New research has proven that boron has the ability to form a cage-like molecule similar to a buckyball that has helped bring in the nanotechnology era. Scientists working together from Brown University and Shanxi University and Tsinghua University in China have shown that a cluster of 40 boron atoms forms a hollow molecular cage similar to a carbon buckyball. Read More »

Toxic algae blooms are to return to western Lake Erie this summer, threatening marine life and humans wading in these waters, according to predictions by the NOAA released Thursday. Cyanobacteria, a harmful blue-green alga, is expected to rear its ugly head in late summer, though forecasts note that the bloom will most likely be smaller than last year’s intense bloom, ... Read More »

Baboons groom other, more powerful members of their groups early in the morning so that they will be favoured through the rest of the day, a study has found. Read More »

It’s the biggest aggregation of anchovies seen in near-shore waters in three decades, according to scientists at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Read More »