Science

Researchers from the United States and Canada will take part in an unprecedented survey of marine mammals off Atlantic Canada this year. Researchers who want to help track whale movements can do so with the Whale Alert App, which can be used on any mobile device. Whale Alert helps reduce the chance of fatal ship strikes by large vessels by …

A bright meteor burning up in Earth’s atmosphere was captured on the dashcam of a Maine police officer while he was on early morning traffic patrol on Tuesday. Police Sgt. Tim Farris was patrolling for speeding drivers early Tuesday in Portland, Maine when his cruiser’s dash cam captured the remarkable: a bright and burning mass, hurtling through the night sky. …

Two divers happen upon cargo of a sunken merchant ship in Caesarea, revealing pristine 1,600-year-old treasures and coins. The Israel Antiques Authority said the finds are in an “amazing state” of preservation thanks to coatings of sand. The remains of the ship were “left uncovered on the sea bottom” and were discovered by two divers last month, with successive trips …

A recent study has found two “birthmarks” in Earth’s mantle consisting of silicate material that formed when our planet was less than 50 million years old. The research paper, published May 13 in the journal Science, was authored by Tais. W. Dahl, Assistant Professor in Geobiology at the University of Copenhagen, with assistance from University of Maryland Professor of Geology, …

Scientists with the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station have completed the first assessment of the state’s native bee population, providing wildlife experts with the first comprehensive list of the Granite State’s more than 100 native bees that includes nearly 20 bee species that had not been previously documented in the state. Sandra Rehan, assistant professor of biological sciences at the …

Evidence has emerged of an ancient civilization of mastodon hunters that was extant 15,000 years ago in present-day Florida. The finding was made on the Aucilla River. It is a 45 minute drive from Tallahassee. This happens to be the oldest site where ancient human beings lived in the southeastern United States. It goes back some 15,000 years in the …

Disney Research has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) researchers to include standard radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags into game controllers. RFID tags are typically used for high tech inventory management in a variety of industries, but researchers concocted a way to make RFID technology feasible for interactive games using physical objects. Their technique makes it possible to use RFID …

New footage from Australia shows a pod of false killer whales hunt down a lone juvenile shark. The video, captured by drone hobbyist Bruno Kataoka, shows the false killer whales chasing the shark, tiring it out and then going in for the kill. Bruno Kataoka has filmed what experts believe to be four false killer whales, members of the dolphin …

Researchers have flown satellites through the eye of a space storm, in the first direct observation of a clash between Earth’s magnetic field and the solar wind. For the first time, NASA spacecraft have measured the strange interactions between the Sun’s and Earth’s magnetic fields that are linked to explosive space weather events high above our planet’s surface. The phenomenon, …

Even after officially demoting it to a dwarf planet, scientists still aren’t quite sure what to make of Pluto. A recently published study makes categorizing the former planet even more difficult. In a research published in the Journal of Geophysical Research last week, space physicists revealed that Pluto behaves less like a comet and more like a planet based on …

Cold and entirely without light, the deepest regions of the ocean were long believed to be barren and uninhabitable. In the body of scientific knowledge, discovery of life within the deep blue planet is relatively young. Although it covers 66 per cent of the global seafloor area, the deep ocean has remained a ‘black box’ in terms of global patterns …