Researchers have now discovered how earth looked at various stages in its history – from the age of the dinosaurs to more recent times- and what would come into focus for alien astronomers. Researchers from the Astrophysical Institute of the Canary Islands and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology used cloud models to piece together Earth’s [...]
Scientists have shed light on the origin of the carbohydrates (sugars) that form the building blocks of life. Organic chemists at the University of York led by Dr Paul Clarke in the Department of Chemistry have re-created a process, which could have occurred in the prebiotic world. Working with colleagues at the University of Nottingham, [...]
Dolphins are more intelligent than you thought. They are multilingual — at least in their sleep, scientists have found. A team at University of Rennes claims to have recorded captive dolphins at an acquatic park in France talking in their sleep — in fact, the aquatic mammals have been found to be making whale-like noises, [...]
Scientists have discovered a new carnivorous plant which has sticky leaves beneath the ground to help it capture and digest worms. The rare plant Philcoxia minensis is found in Brazil’s tropical savannahs region which is rich in biodiversity and highly in need of conservation. Although some of the plant’s millimeter-wide leaves grow above ground as [...]
British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years. Dr Howard Falcon-Lang, a paleontologist at Royal Holloway, University of London, said Today that he stumbled upon the glass slides containing the fossils in an old wooden cabinet [...]
Scientists have found new evidences that suggest humans may have originated on riversides. According to the researchers, this discovery could help us better understand the environmental forces that shaped the origin of the human lineage, such as factors of the landscape that prompted our ancestors to start walking upright on two legs. What may be [...]
Sediments found after drilling into the core of the Dead Sea have revealed that the lake almost disappeared 120,000 years ago. In late 2010, a consortium of investigators drilled two cores into the Dead Sea’s bed. One of them was centered close to the very deepest part of the lake. At 235m down, the scientists [...]
A team of botanists has described an orchid species that flower at night, the first of its kind known to science. The plant, Bulbophyllum nocturnum, was discovered by a Dutch researcher during an expedition to New Britain, an island near Papua New Guinea. Experts said the “remarkable” species is the only orchid known to consistently [...]
Contrary to the perception that temperature is the key variable in banana ripening, a research has found that the fruit actually favours long days. Seasonal variation in banana production is an issue for growers worldwide and has driven research focused on what influences its rate of development. But, now an international team, led by the [...]
A “super strain” of yeast developed by researchers at the University of Georgia can efficiently ferment ethanol from pre-treated pine – one of the most common species of trees in Georgia and the U.S. The breakthrough discovery could help biofuels replace gasoline as a transportation fuel. “Companies are interested in producing ethanol from woody biomass [...]
marcos anthony toledo:
Lets see how this new information either proves or disprove the current cosmic models of t...
marcos anthony toledo:
I think the further back we go in time we will find evidence of fishing. I think it might ...
Jase_UK:
One side could be really hot and the other side really cold.
It all depends on the type...
marcos anthony toledo:
What I wonder if the planet circling Gliese 581 is not rotating what would be the effect o...
marcos anthony toledo:
This great news this increases the chances for finding life in the galaxy since red dwarf ...
