New discovery shatters previous beliefs about Earth’s origin
Scientists have now demonstrated that Earth and other planetary objects that formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins...
Tropical crow species is highly skilled tool user
A captive Hawaiian crow ('Alal?) using a stick tool to extract food from a wooden log. 'Alal? have relatively straight bills and highly mobile...
Larger marine animals at higher risk of extinction, and humans are to blame
Humpback whale breaching.Credit: NOAA
In today's oceans, larger-bodied marine animals are more likely to become extinct than smaller creatures, according to a Stanford-led report. It's...
Unravelling the genetic mystery behind mitochondrial disease
Professor Mike Ryan and Dr David Stroud. Credit: Monash University
Researchers from the Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne have identified two new genes linked...
Engineers stop soap bubbles from swirling
The spinning rainbow surface of a soap bubble is more than mesmerizing -- it's a lesson in fluid mechanics. Better understanding of these hypnotic...
Pluto ‘Paints’ its Largest Moon Red
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution, enhanced color view of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon, just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. The...
Engineers Teach Machines to Recognize Tree Species
Credit: Flickr/shubhojitghose
Engineers from Caltech have developed a method that uses data from satellite and street-level images, such as the ones that you can see...
Half of kids in American families studied spend time in households with firearms
A survey of parents in Missouri and Illinois reveals that about half of the children in the families queried spent time in homes that...
High factor sunscreen can decrease the risk of melanoma by 33%
A large study published by the Department of Biostatistics at the University of Oslo in the highly ranked Journal of Clinical Oncology found that...
Astronomers shed light on different galaxy types
Galaxies of Stephan's Quintet in the constellation Pegasus, observed by the Hubble Space Telescope.Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team.
Australian scientists have...
How our brain slows down the effects of aging
The older we get, the more difficult it becomes to put the world around us in order. Yet, our brain develops remarkable strategies to...
