Science

Scientists just voted on declaring a new geological age influenced by humans. The Anthropocene epoch is said to be a “new age of man” signifying the intense influence human activity is having on the future geological record. Humanity’s influence on the Earth is so great, an entirely new geological epoch called the Anthropocene should be declared, according to scientists from …

Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable planet orbiting the closest star to our solar system that appears to be able to support life, according to a study published Wednesday. The newly-discovered planet, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red host star once every 11 days, is slightly more massive than Earth and is the exoplanet located closest to our homeworld, …

Towering over Seward, yet still dwarfed by the mountains, sat the Crystal Serenity, a luxury unmatched at sea. The ship was packed with food, supplies and the luggage for its roughly 1,700 passengers, ready to begin their historic adventure through the Arctic on Tuesday. The all-inclusive cruise will take 32 days to sail from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic …

The second-oldest confirmed shipwreck in the Great Lakes was discovered below the surface of Lake Ontario in late June by a group of retirees who hunt for sunken ships in their spare time. Jim Kennard and his team located a 53-foot ship named the Washington in late June. It sank during a storm all the way back in 1803, which …

A kayaker happened to be using a telephoto lens when a mother humpback whale breached extremely close by, resulting in once-in-a-lifetime footage. The was video posted to YouTube by Wildcoast Adventures on Monday. It was taken in the Von Donop Inlet on the north end of Cortes Island in the Discovery Islands.

A high-resolution camera on the International Space Station caught two Perseid meteors in the night sky on Aug. 10. The meteors were streaking between the station and the sky, and the second one is spectacular. The Meteor project is about more than gathering stunning imagery. The camera can make spectroscopic observations of passing meteors, allowing scientists to gather information about …

NASA selected six companies to design and develop prototype deep space habitats to be used sometime in the future as part of the agency’s journey to Mars. “NASA is on an ambitious expansion of human spaceflight, including the journey to Mars, and we’re utilizing the innovation, skill and knowledge of both the government and private sectors,” said Jason Crusan, director …

Technology is now helping people who have been paralysed for years, and the results are amazing. Eight people with spinal cord injuries have regained some feeling in their legs after training with brain-controlled robotics, in a result nobody, not even the lead neuroscientist, expected. Biomedical engineers and neuroscientists from Brazil and the US designed brain-machine interface training using the patients’ …

An ancient group of sharks living approximately 300 million years ago were cannibalistic and would even devour their own young, according to fossil evidence collected as part of research detailed in Thursday’s edition of Palaeontology. The discovery was made by Aodhán Ó Gogáin, a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin’s School of Natural Sciences, who found baby shark teeth in …

Environment Canada is looking into a possibility a land spout tornado touched down near Delaware Thursday afternoon. Environment Canada Severe Weather Meteorologist Ria Alsen says a damage survey team from Western University was sent to follow up on reports of a possible tornado in Delaware. They were able to confirm that a weak Fujita Scale zero land spout tornado did …

Recent studies of ancient DNA found that the first humans who got into America might not have gone through the ice-free corridor after all, which was previously the most believable viewpoint. In the paper, which was published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Mikkel W. Pedersen from the Natural History Museum of Denmark and his colleagues studied ancient DNA as well …