Science

It turns out that a bad neighborhood smells pretty bad–especially when it comes to damaged reefs. Scientists have found that Pacific corals and fish avoid settling in bad regions by sniffing out chemical cues.

Scientists determined a copper awl is the oldest metal object found in the Middle East to date. The awl is believed to date back to the late sixth millennium or early fifth millennium, which is several hundred years earlier than researchers thought people first started using metal the University of Haifa reported.

New research indicates that the cause of the global warming ‘pause’ is trapped deep in the Atlantic Ocean. Researchers from the University of Washington (UW) say that heat from the surface is plunging nearly a mile down in the north and south Atlantic, affecting the balance between incoming heat and heat radiated back into the atmosphere, writes Nature World News.

Mountains in Calif. have risen slightly more than half an inch in the past 18 months as a result of a massive draught. According to Climate Central, the water disappearing from the land is acting like a weight being lifted off a spring. Researchers estimate 63 trillion gallons of groundwater and surface water has evaporated in the Western region’s drought.

A huge kilometre-long crack has appeared in a remote part of Mexico, leaving scientists and locals baffled.

Astronomers have discovered a low-mass star that exhibits the peculiar chemical abundance ratios associated with the process of creating new atomic nuclei in a first-generation massive star.

Pacific corals and fish can both smell a bad neighborhood and they use this ability to avoid settling in damaged reefs, according to a new study. The study found that the damaged coral reefs emit chemical cues that repulse young coral and fish discouraging them from settling in the degraded habitat.

A circus in Germany is celebrating the birth of four rare white lion cubs. A spokeswoman for Circus Krone says the three males and their sister were born Wednesday in the eastern city of Magdeburg and are doing well.

Despite widespread concern about global warming, rising air temperatures have actually slowed down dramatically over the past 15 years. This so-called “hiatus” has posed a big puzzle for climate scientists. Researchers at the University of Washington looked deep into the oceans for answers, and found that despite the surficial evidence, climate change has not stopped.

The public will soon have a chance to see an extraordinary set of footprints left behind by dinosaurs 125 million years ago. The tracks were first discovered by a Moab resident in 2009 but the location of the discovery-site has been kept secret. Scientists from the University of Colorado and the Bureau of Land Management studied the site north of …

Two ancient Mayan cities have been discovered deep in the Mexican jungle, containing giant palaces and even a 65-foot high temple pyramid. The discovery was made in the southeastern part of the Mexican state of Campeche, hidden in jungle so thick that archeologists needed aerial photographs to find the sites.