Science

New study on an ancient “Deep Skull” discovered in Southeast Asia has revealed the remains had no links to Indigenous Australians as initially thought. The ancient human skull that was discovered almost six decades ago and new analysis may rewrite the prehistory of Southeast Asia. The 37,000-year-old remains of the “Deep Skull” was the oldest modern human discovered in island …

NASA has placed the base of the solar system internet by establishing operational Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN), which is currently being tested on the International Space Station (ISS). The system has been designed by a team of NASA scientists who worked closely with Dr. Vinton G. Cerf, vice president and chief internet evangelist for Google, known as one of the …

New findings from NASA’s Curiosity Rover provide evidence that significant amounts of oxygen once permeated the atmosphere of ancient Mars. The Red Planet, it would seem, was more Earth-like than we thought. This higher oxygen level can be linked to a time when groundwater was present in the planet’s Gale Crater where the rover is based, and it adds to …

The first of our 2016 summer releases went smoothly today (June 27th) when 5 marmots from the Calgary Zoo were released to Mt Washington. There’s still 8 more marmots from the Calgary Zoo to be released, and a number more that will likely need to be translocated into suitable habitat, but its a great start! After the release into a …

Scientists in Europe and the USA – including a cosmologist from the University of Portsmouth – have begun modelling the universe for the first time using Einstein’s full general theory of relativity. The teams have independently created two new computer codes they say will lead to the most accurate possible models of the universe and provide new insights into gravity …

Astronomers working with the European Space Agency’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have just announced that a black hole-observing device called GRAVITY is now fully operational on all four of the VLT’s 8.2 metre (26.9 foot) Unit Telescopes – and it’s has already provided one accurate measurement. GRAVITY is part of the VLT Interferometer. By combining light from …

New evidence suggests that insects were using camouflage to hide from their predators as many as 100 million years ago. During the Cretaceous period, insects were already using a panoply of tricks to evade their predators, a new study in Science Advances shows. Evidence of camouflage in insects is quite rare, so this is an exceptional finding. By meticulously studying …

A University of Montana-led study has pointed to the importance of gravel-bed rivers in mountainous areas such as western Montana. Professor Ric Hauer, director of the Center for Integrated Research on the Environment, leads a group of authors who looked at the full continuum of species and processes supported by gravel-bed rivers, from microbes to bull trout and from elk …

Britain’s departure from the EU will force broad changes to the bloc’s energy and climate policies, and remove a crucial ally for Central Europeans — but it will also give London far more freedom to pursue nuclear projects. The vote was too close to call ahead of the polls opening yesterday morning, but the final count saw 52 per cent …

NASA will subject the booster for a Boeing-built rocket to a second ground qualification test on June 28 at an Orbital ATK facility in Utah. This is the last time the booster will be fired in a test environment before the first test flight of SLS with NASA’s Orion spacecraft, known as Exploration Mission-1 (EM-1), in late 2018.

There’s a whole other world under the sea and it appears now it’s making a mysterious whistling noise which humans can’t hear, though it can be detected in space, according to new research. Researchers at the University of London have found that due to the size of the sea, it’s producing a sound from its seafloor which plays a note …