New Tool for Big Data Analysis Facilitates Biological Discovery
Original story from the University of Basel (Switzerland). A new software tool, Bonsai, makes sense of high-dimensional datasets…
Mauao landslide report reveals decades of ignored warnings behind fatal disaster
Comment: Just before 9.30am on January 22 this year, a huge landslide from the lower slopes of Mauao…
Is the ‘doomsday asteroid’ Apophis going to hit Earth? NASA now has a definite answer (and the specific time)
Is the ‘doomsday asteroid’ Apophis going to hit Earth? NASA now has a definite answer (and the specific…
Physicists Discover Time Crystals Can Communicate Across a Semiconductor
Researchers found that multiple continuous time crystals can behave collectively rather than as isolated oscillators. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Separate…
Government announces funding boost to protect NZ from goats and deer
Conservation Minister Tama Potaka has announced a four-year funding boost of $9.7 million to help manage wild goats…
Zero Gravity Doesn’t Seem To Affect Heart Muscle Cells
Original story from the University of Chicago Medical Center (IL, USA). Research on cells from mice that had…
The world inches toward catastrophic climate events: ‘Bigger shocks are on the way’
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…
The universe is full of strange ‘little red dots’. A new study shines light on their real nature
In 2023, the James Webb Space Telescope revealed something strange: the distant reaches of the universe are filled…
Physicists ditch the laser and pull entangled photons from sunlight
Physicists thought entangled photons could only come from a laser, but now they have pulled them from simple…
Safari Vehicle Gets Caught In Middle Of Wild Lion Chase
A dramatic wildlife encounter captures the heart-stopping moment two male lions erupt into a territorial chase and come…
Lunar Soil: Cosmic Time Capsule for Star Explosions
When a star reaches its final stages of life, it ends in a bright and powerful explosion called…
Most humpback whale populations have rebounded from near-extinction over the past sixty years, but the Arabian Sea population — isolated for an estimated 70,000 years and the only humpbacks that never migrate — has not recovered at all and remains endangered
Most humpback whales have made a comeback. In 2016, after decades of counting, NOAA Fisheries decided that 9…