Science

Researchers from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and Colorado College have unraveled the mystery of a red waterfall in Antarctica. The research unveils mechanisms potentially at work in other polar glaciers. When explorers discovered the seemingly bloodstained face of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica in the early 1900s, they thought it was red algae that colored the macabre falls oozing ... Read More »

A new research shows that when lady dragonflies aren’t in the mood, they go as far as to fake their own deaths, plummeting from the air and lying motionless on the ground when males they’re not interested in pester them for sex. In a research recently presented to the Ecological Society of America, the behavior was reported in 27 out ... Read More »

Citizen researchers have discovered a strange new aurora feature known as “Steve,” according to a group of researchers working in Canada. Citizen science is emerging as an increasingly important force these days, and when everyday folks take on the task of scientific inquiry, we end up with some interesting results. This isn’t a bad thing by any means, just a ... Read More »

Five dinosaur egg fossils believed to be 70 million years old were discovered recently in a construction site near the city of Foshan, south China’s Guangdong Province. The 5 dinosaur egg shells were engraved on a red sandstone. “We found five eggs: three were destroyed, but they are still visible,” researcher Qiu Licheng from Guangdong’s Archaeological Institute told China Central ... Read More »

Collisions of whales and boats off the coast of New England may be more common than previously believed, a team of marine scientists suggested. According to a new study, nearly 15 percent of the protected humpback whales that come to the southern Gulf of Maine to feed every spring are hit by boats and other vessels. The collisions led to ... Read More »

Scientists are calling it “Steve,” and it is puzzling scientists around the world who can’t explain why it’s happening. The light had been referred to as a proton arc among aurora watchers, but when University of Calgary associate professor Eric Donovan came across the photos, he knew that could not be. Proton aurora are not visible — although Professor Donovan ... Read More »

A majority of habitable planets may be water worlds that lack dry land and are dominated by oceans that cover 90 percent of their surface area, a new study has suggested. A team of researchers from the University of Barcelona, Spain, has created a statistical model based on Bayesian probability to predict the ratio of land and water on exoplanets ... Read More »

On Earth Day, CNN held a discussion on climate change and Bill Nye was not happy that a skeptic was allowed on the panel. Bill Nye was invited to speak on CNN’s New Day Saturday program for Earth Day, along with May Boeve, the executive director of green action group 350.org; and William Happer, a climate change skeptic and physicist ... Read More »

ALIEN hunters have been left doing somersaults amid astonishing claims they have found an alien skull and an ancient tree stump on the surface of mars. ‘This object definitely looks out of place and in my opinion could be the petrified remnants of a Martian tree,’ the alien hunter and YouTuber shared in the video description. ‘Object is around 3 ... Read More »

Scientists discover that strange hobbits were not shrunken versions of humanity’s ancient ancestor, Homo erectus. H. floresiensis, or the “Flores hobbit”, was only found in 2003, when researchers on the Indonesian island of Flores unearthed the remains of a previously unknown member of the human family. The study was published in the Journal of Human Evolution. The bones, uncovered deep ... Read More »

NASA on Thursday released a photo taken from the Cassini spacecraft that shows a tiny-looking Earth from the view between Saturn’s icy rings. The spacecraft captured the view on April 12, 2017 at 10:41 p.m. PDT (1:41 a.m. EDT). Cassini was 870 million miles (1.4 billion kilometers) away from Earth when the image was taken. Although far too small to ... Read More »