Researchers have found a bizarre bumpy-looking blob in the biofiltration pond in Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. The discovery was made last month during BioBlitz event when several citizens and scientists visited Vancouver’s Stanley Park to see the type of wildlife dwelling in the park. Some researchers spent whole day in the park and […]
The International Space Station (ISS) is about to get its first supercomputer next week. This supercomputer, called the Spaceborne Computer, has been built by Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and will be launched into space on Monday aboard SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft. HPE has built this supercomputer as a joint experiment with NASA. The life of Spaceborne […]
A new species of grass snake has been identified in Europe. This barred grass snake is scientifically named as Natrix Helvetica and was identified following genetic analysis of more than 1,600 grass snakes, including specimens stored in scientific museum. After this new finding, the number of European grass snakes species has increased to four. The […]
An amateur angler has caught a 9-feet long blue shark off the coast of Cornwall. The monster is being said to be the Britain’s biggest blue shark on record. John Dine was on a fishing trip along with his three friends when he hooked this monster. The group, from Essex, then reeled the shark and […]
Carcasses of two right whales have been found in Canada gulf, taking the death toll to nine. Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) revealed that these carcasses were found at Cape Ray and Cedar Cove. Animal conservation groups and researchers are puzzled about death of so many North Atlantic right whales in recent months. […]
A 10-year-old boy named Charlie Edwards recently spotted a dinosaur-labelling error in the Natural History Museum. He then told Museum staff about the mistake and helped them to correct it. According to Charlie, he was exploring the Dino Snores exhibit in the museum when he saw a sign displaying an egg and a full dinosaur, […]
A British diver was recently able to capture the footage of a rare megamouth shark species near Komodo Island in Indonesia. British diver Penny Bielich’s encounter with the shark happened while he was exploring the diving spot in Gili Lawa of Komodo Island, Indonesia. Samata Luxury Liveabroad (@samataluxury) then uploaded the video on Youtube. “Yesterday, […]
A woman in Hampshire felt highly embarrassed when she called an inspector from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA) to catch a massive spider lurking in her home, but the spider was later found to be nothing more than a plastic toy. An RSPCA inspector, Nikki Denham, had quickly arrived […]
A huge 40-tonne adult humpback whale was recently filmed by a diver and underwater cameraman in the Indian Ocean, and according to the person, the whale was literally jumping out of the water. A report published by website Boredpanda stated that the video was shot by Craig Capehart, a scuba diver, while he was sitting […]
A team of Australian and Japanese researchers have discovered a new species of sunfish in New Zealand waters, which is being claimed to be the first sunfish species be discovered in the past 130 years. Researchers say this fish managed to escape taxonomy records for almost three centuries. Researchers who took part in this study […]
Famous Indian scientist Professor Yash Pal died on Monday. He was 90 years of age and was living in Noida, Uttar Pradesh. His last rites will take place at 3 pm on Tuesday. Professor Yash Pal was a scientist of international repute, and received Padma Bhushan in 1976. In 2013, he was awarded Padma Vibhushan […]
The Met Office has warned that England and Wales should remain prepared for “unprecedented” rainfall this winter. In a latest report, the Office said downpours this winter could break monthly rainfall records for these regions and create flood-like situation similar to those experienced in 2014. During the winter of 2013-14, Southern England and the Midlands […]
Three new species of toads—the Dixie Valley toad, Railroad Valley toad and Hot Creek toad—have been found in Nevadas Great Basin in the US. The toad species were found during an extensive survey of 190,000 square miles of ancient lake bottom. Toad refers to a common name for certain frogs characterized by short legs, leathery […]
Land clearing in Queensland is causing death and habitat loss of threatened species, according to an independent scientific report prepared by Species Technical Committee and M.J. Laidlaw. Nature has blessed Queensland with a rich biodiversity in the form of unique flora and fauna. However, some of the plant and animal species in the state are […]
Science has come to help the people who are very particular about their alcohol. Different types of alcohols taste differently due to the different volatile compounds present in them. Now researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the US have developed a new disposable, color-changing sensor that can accurately identify different alcohols. This […]
Stanford researchers have developed a new type of robot that can grow like vines across long distances without moving its whole body. According to its developers, this robot can grow at speeds of 22 mph. The unique feature of this robot is a flexible polyethylene plastic tube that is stored within the core of its […]
Researchers from University of New South Wales in Australia are trying to create a superalgae using genetic engineering technique to protect world’s coral from bleaching. According to researchers, they have identified genes in micro-algae Symbiodinium (zooxanthellae) found in corals and it would now be used to protect corals from bleaching. Scientists say they would use […]
On July 17, a Kuiper Belt object named 2014 MU69 passed in front of a distant star, giving scientists on Earth an opportunity to capture the rare eclipse in their cameras. According to scientists, MU69 is located about 6.4 billion kilometres away from Earth. It is about 30 to 50 km in diameter. The […]
A new study carried out by researchers from the University of New South Wales in Australia suggests that life on Earth most likely started on land rather than in the sea. Researchers involved in this study scoured the landscape of the Pilbara region of Western Australia to search for clues to how ancient microbes could […]
A team of young researchers and scientists in Russia have launched a tiny CubeSat, dubbed Mayak, which might outshine Venus and Jupiter in the night sky, as per claims made by developers of this satellite. Mayak was launched on July 14 through Russian made Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Soyuz carried with it […]
Researchers have created this smart device using a leather athletic glove and stretchable sensors. Scientists at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) have developed a smart glove, dubbed the “The Language of Glove” that can easily translate sign language into text wirelessly. Scientists have created this glove using stretchable and printable electronics that are […]
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured some stunning images of a galaxy IC 342, that sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disk. Although this spiral galaxy is bright, it is difficult to spot because of the glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dust around it, thus nicknamed “Hidden Galaxy” by astronomers. IC […]
The European Space Agency’s CryoSat is currently tracking the changes in the thickness and the height of the iceberg. A Delaware-sized iceberg is about to break off from one of Antarctica’s major ice shelves known as Larsen C. The European Space Agency (ESA) has been keeping a watch on this iceberg through its orbital eyes, […]
A new study carried out by scientists from Chinese and American researchers suggests that frogs were able increase their populations after dinosaurs got extinct from the planet about 66 million years ago when an asteroid slammed into Earth. “Frogs have been around for well over 200 million years, but this study shows it wasn’t until […]
After spending 28 days in space, the SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft has returned to Earth. According to SpaceX, the craft splashed down at about 8:14 a.m. EDT (1214 GMT) on July 3 in the Pacific Ocean. It took the Dragon craft about 5.5 hours to reach the Earth. It brought with it over 1814 kilograms […]
On Sunday, Chinese state media Xinhua News revealed that the launch of China’s powerful Long March-5 Y2 rocket has failed. This rocket was designed to take heavy communication satellites into orbit. About 40 minutes after the lift-off, Xinhua news said that the launch was a failure, without giving any further details. “Abnormity was detected during […]
UFO hunters have posted a video on YouTube, claiming to have found evidence of life existing on the Red Planet. The video posted by UFO hunter group Martian Archaeology shows a series of pictures captured by NASA’s Curiosity Rover suggesting presence of fossilized bones, dead wood, lichen and fungus scattered on the surface of Mars. […]
A new study carried out by scientists from Stockholm University in Sweden suggests that water actually exists in two different forms having major differences in terms of structure and density. In the new research, scientists used X-rays to study H2O molecule in unprecedented detail, and reached the conclusion that water is “not a complicated liquid, […]
NASA’s Cassini probe has sent some breath-taking pictures of Saturnian dawn. The images were captured on March 31, 2017 by Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera, while the spacecraft was about one million kilometres away from Saturn. The new images are in green light, and show Saturn’s sunlit atmosphere with icy rings. “This view looks toward the […]
Scientists from York University in Canada have solved the millennium-old mystery of ‘bright nights’ or ‘nocturnal sun’. The phenomenon of ‘bright nights’ refers to occasional occurrence of an unexplained glow in the night skies which allowed people to see far-away objects like mountains, make out pebbles on the ground, and even read newspapers. Professor Gordon […]