Science

New footage has emerged which apparently shows a creature lurking in the River Thames. The two clips have ramped up speculation that London could have its very own version of the Loch Ness monster. The footage captured by Youtuber Lea K was posted online yesterday titled “Nessie in the Thames.”

NASA’s Kepler space telescope has unexpectedly gone into an emergency operations mode, halting the start of a much-anticipated phase of its planet hunt. Engineers are working to try to get the probe working normally. Although the exact reason of the problem is unclear, Kepler mission control has declared a spacecraft emergency. This provides the spacecraft’s team with priority access to …

A multinational team of  scientists set out to settle what has oddly been a longstanding dispute in scientific circles: whether, in Moby Dick-esque fashion, sperm whales could use their heads to bash seagoing vessels. University of Queensland researcher Dr Olga Panagiotopoulou, part of an international team researching the theory, says scientific evidence about the phenomenon remains scarce.

Global warming is shifting the way the Earth wobbles on its polar axis which has meant the North Pole is now moving slowly towards the UK, a new NASA study finds. According to the study, published in the scientific journal Science Advances, melting ice sheets are shifting the distribution of weight on the planet so drastically that they are changing …

NASA’s New Horizon spacecraft spotted a unique geological feature on Pluto’s landscape that resembles a giant spider. “The pattern these fractures form is like nothing else we’ve seen in the outer Solar System, and shows once again that anywhere we look on Pluto, we see something different,” says NASA geologist Oliver White.

Walking through a forest on Bawean Island, Indonesia, after a long and frustrating day in the field, Mark Rademaker came face to face one of the world’s rarest wild animals, a kind of warty pig. The Bawean warty pig is found solely on Bawean island, Indonesia. Previously, only anecdotal information existed about the Bawean warty pig’s behavior and conservation needs, …

By simulating conditions in space, scientists in France say they found ribose — the ‘R’ in RNA — is potentially present throughout the universe. A team of researchers at the Institut de Chime de Nice (CNRS) in Paris have just published a study that goes a long way to the pseudo-panspermia perspective. In the newest issue of Science, the researchers …

Edmonton Police Charge Oil Salesman For Threat To Shoot Up Alberta Minister’s Office. Cheryl Sheppard of the Edmonton Police Service says a call was received in the office of Environment Minister Shannon Phillip on March 31, 2016. The caller allegedly told a staffer that he was upset over the carbon tax so he was going to get his gun and …

Burrowing into the Y chromosomes of modern humans and a 50,000-year-old Neanderthal specimen has turned up a few surprises. Amy Middleton reports. While our genome harbours a smattering of Neanderthal DNA, the Y chromosome – a human sex-determining chromosome – does not, new research shows. In the first comparison of Y chromosomes, a study published in the American Journal of …

A city stormwater pond is still infested with goldfish after a wimpy winter failed to freeze them out. Erin Ridge residents have spotted large numbers of goldfish in Edgewater Pond this month. The fish are an invasive species and should not be in the pond, as they could escape into the Sturgeon River and harm native fish.

A conference held in Washington D.C. has highlighted the need to put strategies in place to counteract massive solar storms that could completely knock out communication systems. “Since the development of the electrical telegraph in the 1840s, space weather processes have affected the design, implementation and operation of many engineered systems, at first on Earth and now in space,” noted …