Antarctic sea-ice has expanded over the period of continuous satellite monitoring, which seemingly contradicts ongoing global warming resulting from increasing concentrations of greenhouse gasses. In… [+4439 chars]
From WIRED: Increasingly journals have published research thats free for anyone to read, and scientists have shared their data among each other. The open science movement has also entailed the rise … [+3580 chars]
It has been common knowledge that climatic shifts, in particular the transition from the warm and wet Pliocene (5.3-2.6 mya) to the cold and dry Pleistocene (2.6 mya 10 kya), played a key role in the… [+5859 chars]
Fossil organisms from the Cenozoic Era have been discovered in abundance in a geological deposit in Aix-en-Provence, France. There has been an abundance of mummified animals & plants unearthed in… [+1895 chars]
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When Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon on July 21, 1969, I wasnt even born. Ive heard stories about how the world held its breath a long, excruciating inhale while they watched on TV as the Eagle l… [+6432 chars]
We all know crows and ravens, with their pitch-black color and distinctive sounds. But theres much to these birds than meets the eyes. As it turns out, they occupy almost all of Earths biomes, from d… [+2817 chars]
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been fired up again after a three year break for maintenance and upgrades with the first beam sent around the tunnel just before 10am BST this morning. The LHC wo… [+13327 chars]
According to a survey conducted by dating app Bumble, the pandemic has changed our approach to finding love. People are more willing to try new things this year, according to the survey, with 48 perc… [+5301 chars]
Nucleic acids analysis is mainly used in pathogen detection, genetic disease identification and early cancer diagnosis. For example, quantitative analysis of circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), a free DNA… [+3017 chars]
The CMS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider measures the mass of the top quark with unparalleled accuracy. Credit: CERN Precise knowledge of the top-quark mass is of paramount importance to u… [+3278 chars]
Imagine a home on Mars. Is it filled with bacteria? When we send humans to Mars , they'll need places to live. In a new study, a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), in … [+4201 chars]
