Major earthquakes strike US, Venezuela and Japan
Three major earthquakes rattled a trio of nations globally on Thursday. The first quake hit the north coast…
NASA’s Lucy finds a wobbling peanut-shaped asteroid with signs of ancient water
Even relatively small asteroids can have surprisingly eventful histories. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft recently revealed that asteroid Donaldjohanson is…
Biomarkers May Spot ICU Patients at Chronic Risk
New research, published in The Journal of Immunology , identified biomarkers of a distinct immune profile that could…
Luup scooters introduces automatic stop function to avoid nuisance use in Kyoto
When Luup scooter users in Kyoto enter prohibited areas around the city’s picturesque Kamo River, their vehicle will…
Less than a third of the world’s ocean floor has been mapped to modern standards, meaning humanity currently knows more about the surface of Mars than about the seabed covering two thirds of its own planet
The Seabed 2030 project has lifted global ocean-floor coverage from 6% to approximately 28.7% since its launch in…
Scientists Recreate a Quantum Mystery in a Water Tank – and Discover Something Completely New
OIST PhD student Aditya Singh generates and observes surface waves that act as a classical analogue to quantum…
A Pilates master trainer shares her ultimate ankle weight workout to build lower-body strength
Ankle weights are a deceptively difficult way to add resistance to your workouts. You may pick them up…
Councils deny EnergyCo town water for New England REZ construction
Rural councils are refusing to provide town water for Renewable Energy Zone (REZ) projects, demanding that additional water…
A Turquoise Tint for the Black Sea
The Black Sea sits at the boundary between Europe and Asia and connects to the Mediterranean Sea via…
Chiral laser gyroscopes breaking the lock-in limit
Killpatrick, J. The laser gyro. IEEE Spectr. 4, 44–55 (1967). Article Google Scholar Statz, H., Dorschner, T. A.,…
The ‘ballista spider’: Scientists discover a tiny spider that launches ants with 140 times the force of gravity |
Deep in the rainforests of far north Queensland, Australia, scientists have discovered a tiny spider with an extraordinary…
Four-winged Velociraptor ancestor reveals new history about ancient predators
A newly identified microraptor, roughly the size of a barn owl, is giving dinosaur fans a fuller picture…