Science

Scientists commemorate one of the brightest supernovae in 400 years with new images and models of this stellar remnant. Three decades ago, a massive stellar explosion sent shockwaves not only through space but also through the astronomical community. SN 1987A was the closest observed supernova to Earth since the invention of the telescope and has become by far the best …

Scientists at Queen Mary University of London trained bees to roll a ball into a goal by rewarding them with sugar water. First, they taught the insects the correct location for the ball, then taught them how to move a ball from a different location to the desired area in order to obtain their reward, they explained in a statement. …

‘Tis the season… eclipse season that is, as a spectacular “ring of fire” annular solar eclipse marks the end of the first of two eclipse cycles for 2017. You’ll need to mark the date down in your calendar (although it depends where you’re based), because you won’t want to miss what is, in my opinion, the best type of solar …

For 40 years, heat trapped by human-caused greenhouse gas pollution has been eating away at Arctic sea ice. But for a brief span in the 20th century, Arctic sea ice was actually increasing — and that may be our fault too, according to a new study. Researchers have observed Arctic sea ice loss since the mid-1970s and some climate model …

Only piece of ‘revolutionary’ metallic hydrogen in the world disappears just weeks after it was first created. Harvard researchers were dealt a crushing blow after something went wrong while they studied the sample of metallic hydrogen they reportedly created last month, according to the Independent. The sample of metallic hydrogen these researchers created was being stored at temperatures close to …

Solar windows could be the next big thing to cut down on your energy bills. Scientists at the University of Minnesota and University of Milano-Bicocca are bringing the dream of windows that can efficiently collect solar energy one step closer to reality thanks to high-tech silicon nanoparticles. The scientists developed technology to embed the silicon nanoparticles into what they call …

NASA has discovered seven planets with Earth-like qualities orbiting a nearby star making them among the strongest candidates in the continued search for extraterrestrial life among known exoplanets, or planets that exist outside of our own solar system. “This is the first time that so many Earth-sized planets have been found around the same star,” says Michaël Gillon, an astronomer …

Nasa’s Fermi Gamma Ray telescope has found a signal originating from the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. The signal detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is similar to gamma-rays observed at the center of the Milky Way, and could be coming from several sources that have yet to be determined.

Researchers have discovered new frogs so tiny they can sit on a thumbnail. After six years of trudging through the rainforests of the Western Ghats in southern India, scientists have discovered seven new endemic species of Nyctibatrachus, or night frogs. Four of these species are hardly 14 mm in length. Measuring in at between 12 and 16 millimetres head-to-toosh, the …

The Vancouver Aquarium plans to bring back beluga whales by the spring of 2019, despite not knowing what killed two of the mammals last November. “For 50 years the Vancouver Aquarium has worked to protect beluga whales in the wild, by introducing the species to Canadians who might never have otherwise heard of it, and with research and understanding gained …

The mystery surrounding the Tully Monster has been reopened, thanks to a controversial new report from the University of Pennsylvania. With a strange tubular body, eyes on the end of stalks and teeth at the end of a long narrow trunk, the ‘Tully Monster’ is perhaps the strangest creature to have ever lived. The monster, which lived 300 million years …