Science

The first ever commercial flight to the Antarctic Circle from Dunedin New Zealand to intercept the auroral oval on the night of 23 March 2017. The 134 passengers on the sold-out flight were treated to an incredible display of light at the edge of space after the plane took off from Dunedin. Organiser and Otago Museum Director Ian Griffin said, ... Read More »

New research suggests the sand grains on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, behave similar to the packing peanuts used in shipping boxes. Lab experiments suggest the granules become electrically charged and clump together, resisting motion as they attach themselves to other hydrocarbons. Experiments led by researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology suggest the particles that cover the surface of Saturn’s ... Read More »

Former Nasa astronaut Alan Bean has said he does not think an advanced alien civilisation has ever visited Earth – because if they had they would have made contact. Alan Bean, who was a pilot for the Apollo 12 mission that went to the moon in 1969, says that if intelligent life from another planet came to Earth, they would ... Read More »

Scientists have found signs of ancient dinosaur fossils from the Cretaceous Period in Australia. Actually Australia’s Jurassic Park is world’s most diverse site of dinosaur tracks. A team of palaeontologists identified 21 different types of dinosaur tracks on a 25km stretch of coastline north of Broome, in the remote Kimberley region in the north of Western Australia. Sauropod (long-necked, long-tailed ... Read More »

Scientists are launching a search for the extinct Tasmanian tiger (Thylacine) in Far North Queensland after a number of sightings were reported. Researchers will set up more than 50 camera traps in the remote Cape York Peninsula in the hope of spotting Tasmanian tigers, a species which was declared extinct in 1936. There is no doubt that the wolf-like Tasmanian ... Read More »

These long and narrow features, known as recurring slope lineae (RSL), darken some slopes near the Martian equator for weeks at a time during the warmest parts of the year. They were discovered in 2011, by scientists studying images captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Some researchers posit that RSL are caused by transient flows of briny water, and ... Read More »

Thousands of residents of B.C. will join people around the world in turning off their lights and powering down electronics for Earth Hour 2017. The 11th-annual Earth Hour will take place on Saturday, March 25th, between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. While the hour-long event is organized to unite people against climate change the goal is to create a lasting ... Read More »

Nearly two-thirds of cancer mutations are attributable to random DNA copying errors that occur naturally as healthy cells divide, according to a new study out Thursday from researchers who years ago controversially proposed that “bad luck” plays a larger role in cancer than environmental factors and inherited genes. Johns Hopkins University cancer researchers Cristian Tomasetti and Bert Vogelstein, sought to ... Read More »

New fossil evidence discovered by researchers at the University of Cambridge could alter the dinosaur family tree, recent findings published in the journal Nature report. According to BBC News, lead author Matthew Baron of Cambridge and his colleagues looked at fossil evidence and determined that the dinosaurs may have actually originated in the Northern Hemisphere – possibly in a region ... Read More »

Researchers from the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are testing a novel way to generate hydrogen, a potential green energy source, by using a massive array of lights normally found in movie theaters. This experiment involving the world’s “largest artificial sun” is taking place in Jülich, a town located 30 kilometers (19 miles) west of Cologne, and it was designed by ... Read More »

Researchers from the University of Glasgow, take a big step up the ladder towards the development of prosthetic limbs and robots with a sense of touch. They have found a way to power an experimental kind of electronic skin using solar energy. Scientists made electronic skin and allowed it to harness sunlight. It was employed in artificial hands that were ... Read More »