Science

A new report that Researchers are calling one of the most comprehensive studies of great white sharks claims that their numbers are “surging” in the ocean off the Eastern U.S. and Canada after decades of decline, according to the Associated Press. Despite the increase, experts say that doesn’t mean beachgoers should fear the ocean this summer. The study by National ... Read More »

DEFRA has inisted its badger cull policy is compliant with the Bern Convention, after three wildlife charities filed a complaint about the policy to the European wildlife protection body. Read More »

One of the world’s rarest whales was caught on camera swimming in the ocean near Sydney, Australia on Thursday. The male all-white humpback whale is named ‘Migaloo’ and he’s making his annual migration trip up the southern coast of the country. Read More »

For a salamander, the loss of a limb isn’t a terrible event. If a leg or a tail is suddenly amputated, the amphibious creature can simply regrow the lost body part, as if it had never been damaged at all. Read More »

The luminous centre of a distant galaxy was covered by an unusual and powerful stream of gas, ejected from a supermassive black hole. Astronomers observed that the heart of a galaxy called NGC 5548, which is situated around 245 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Boötes, strangely darkened recently. Read More »

Martha, the last surviving passenger pigeon, is being taken out of storage and being put on public display in a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit this month. Read More »

A number of spiders who catch and eat fish have been discovered across the world by scientists. A study has found that while they typically prey on insects, some larger species of spiders will supplement their diet with small fish that are sometimes twice their size. Read More »

For the first time, scientists have given a name to the “silicate mineral with a perovskite structure” that is the most abundant the Earth has: bridgmanite. According to a Caltech press release, Chi Ma and Oliver Tschauner teamed up to analyze the naturally formed mineral, originally found in a meteorite. Bridgmanite is known to be present in the Earth’s lower ... Read More »

This month in the Vancouver Island city of Port Alberni, B.C., carpenter Russ Schut was dangling his line in a muddy pond when he snagged something big: A rabbit-sized, spotted frog whose ribbits are known to sound like the low hum of passing trucks. Read More »

NASA researchers have combined just the right “aromatic flavors” to recreate the air of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, to gain a better understanding of the chemical composition of atmospheres in other worlds, writes Nature World News. According to Melissa Trainer, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recreating the moon’s aromas has allowed a team ... Read More »

Satao, one of Kenya’s largest elephants, has died after being shot by poachers using poisoned arrows. Satao was one of the last surviving ‘great tuskers’, elephants with tusks so large they reach down to the ground. Read More »