Five-hundred million years ago, it was relatively safe to go back in the water. Thats because creatures of the deep had not yet evolved jaws. In a new pair of studies in eLife and Development, scient… [+3555 chars]
Have you ever wondered when was the last time Earth got hit by an asteroid? If so, then NASA scientist Marina Brozovic might have the answer. Asteroids are small, rocky celestial objects in space whi… [+2009 chars]
The Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, has denied reports making the rounds that a student was killed on campus today, following cult clash. There were reports that a student was stabbed to dea… [+280 chars]
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has captured a landscape on the Red Planet that captures the change in seasons, with fans and polygons forming on the terrain. At the higher latitudes, both wate… [+1659 chars]
In an experiment, chimpanzees at Leipzig Zoo in Germany, used touchscreens to navigate towards a tree with a pile of assorted fruits beneath it, within a virtual reality (VR) environment. A custom VR… [+3579 chars]
Article body copy Have you ever looked at a seal and thought, Is that the same seal I saw yesterday? Well, there could soon be an app for that based on new seal facial recognition technology. Known … [+3515 chars]
The lack of knowledge of the self-assembly process and the poor structural stability of the resultant super crystal structures continue to restrict the use of nanocrystals in manufactured materials a… [+6610 chars]
Researchers are using pulsar timing arrays, or PTAs to investigate ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves, that form the gravitational wave background, produced by the mergers of supermassive blackh… [+3527 chars]
Oral cancers are amongst the most common types of cancer worldwide. Their incidence amongst younger individuals has increased notably in recent decades with little change in mortality compared with o… [+7192 chars]
Deep-space missions are usually one-way trips, and that's certainly true of NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission, which, after investigating the potential habitability of the icy Jovian moon, will … [+3480 chars]
Bright and steadfast, quasars help astronomers in many ways. They are the glowing rubbish that supermassive black holes collect and cast off into space from the center of galaxies. Researchers use … [+3078 chars]
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