Science

Scientists have unveiled a pair of new robot guides at a Tokyo museum that look so eerily human and speak so smoothly they almost outdo humans. Pair of android newscasters were unveiled at an exhibition called Android: What is a Human? at the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo.

One of Australia’s first crowd-funded scientific expeditions may have uncovered several new species of mammal. An ecologist from Melbourne raised $A20 thousand to document rare animals in remote Papua New Guinea. It was hoped the camera traps purchased with the funding might capture the first images of critically endangered tree kangaroos in the wild.

A class of pesticides linked to the decline of honeybees is also affecting a wide variety of other beneficial organisms such as earthworms and butterflies, according to a major study that directly contradicts the Government’s relaxed stance on the use of neonicotinoids. A group of 29 Researchers from four continents found unequivocal evidence from hundreds of published studies to claim …

A recent study has proven that the Higgs boson, an important particle, is in charge of giving mass to elementary particles. Ketino Kaadze, a research associate at Fermilab said in a news release. “In nature, there are two types of particles: fermions and bosons,” “Fermions, quarks and leptons make up all the matter around us. Bosons are responsible for mediating …

Following the recent trend of trying to explain climate change and discover ways to curb its effects, a new study has tied events of extreme weather to winds that swirl high above the Earth. According to USA Today, the scientists behind the study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, linked jet streams in the upper atmosphere to weather events …

SpaceX has announced that it will make a third attempt to launch commercial satellites from Cape Canaveral on June 24, after putting off its scheduled attempt on June 22.

When the Earth’s magnetic field switches, strange things happen. Now, the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite system has revealed exactly how our planets magnetism is changing. Launched in 2013, Swarm is made up of three satellites which measure the strength of the Earth’s magnetic field remotely. These new results are based on changes in the magnetic signals stemming from Earth’s …

Emperor penguins have shown to be not as attached to their nesting locations as previously thought, meaning that they could adapt much easier to their changing environment, which is being affected by rising global temperatures.

Researchers have identified a new dinosaur and it appears to be closely related to the Triceratops though it has some key physical differences. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Mercuriceratops gemini weighed some two tons, which would make it half the size of a Triceratops. The paleontologists said the Mercuriceratops had a bony frill atop its head with wing-like …

Vancouver, BC – Following weeks of deliberations related to the Vancouver Aquarium’s whale program, residents of British Columbia are deeply divided on the issue of keeping cetaceans in captivity, a new Insights West poll has found. The online survey of a representative provincial sample sought to review various themes, including awareness, arguments in favour and against keeping animals in captivity, …

The European Southern Observatory has blasted off the top of 3,000 meter high Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile to set up the European Extremely Large Telescope – “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”, according to astronomers. The blast took place at around 17:30 GMT in the Chilean Andes at the top of the Cerro Armazones mountain. As a result …