Greenland shark lifespan at least 400 years
A Greenland shark slowly swimming away from the zodiac, returning to the deep and cold waters of the Uummannaq Fjord in northwestern Greenland. The...
Caught in the act: first videos of coral bleaching behaviour
Heliofungia behaviour as it's bleaching, captured by Brett Lewis and Dr Luke Nothdurft. Credit: Queensland University of Technology
Coral researchers have for the first time...
Researchers develop a low-power always-on camera with gesture recognition
Credit: Georgia Institute of Technology
Smart devices that wake up with voice commands have gained popularity in recent years, and now researchers at Georgia Institute...
Rare frescoes from the Roman period discovered at Zippori in the Galilee
A bull's head in a fresco from Zippori, dating from the early Second Century CE.Credit: Photo: G. Laron
A team from the Hebrew University of...
1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war
A view of the sun on May 23, 1967, in a narrow visible wavelength of light called Hydrogen-alpha. The bright region in the top...
Orangutan able to guess a taste without sampling it, just like us
Naong drinking.Credit: Tomas Persson
Without having tasted a specific new juice mix before, an orangutan in a Swedish zoo has enough sense to know whether...
“Sleeping beauty” is a new species from the Peruvian Andes
The new Sleeping beauty rain frog, scientifically known as Pristimantis pulchridormientes shows the striking red coloration on its rear limbs. Credit: Germán Chávez
A new...
Global warming’s next surprise: Saltier beaches
Researchers have developed models that show that increases in temperature associated with global warming will not only make inland locations more salty, but would...
A Black Hole Story Told by a Cosmic Blob and Bubble
Two cosmic structures show evidence for a remarkable change in behavior of a supermassive black hole in a distant galaxy. Using data from NASA’s...
Venus may have been habitable, NASA climate modeling suggests
Observations suggest Venus may have had water oceans in its distant past. A land-ocean pattern like that above was used in a climate model...
Unearthed: The cannibal sharks of a forgotten age
Image of a thin-section through an Orthacanthus coprolite with a black box indicating the tooth of an Orthacanthus. Credit: Aodhán Ó Gogáin (Trinity College Dublin)
Scientists...
