Science

Nature indeed has a funny way of balancing the ecosystem. Did you know that the animal with the longest sperm is also among the animals with the shortest lifespan? Meet the tiny fruit fly. Fruit fly (Drosophila bifurca) may just be few millimeters in size, but produces gargantuan sperm. According to Science Daily, fruit flies produce almost six centimeters or ... Read More »

A scientific study published Wednesday concluded that global warming on other planets has made billions of planets unable to host life, making it a lot harder to find aliens. According to Space, a new study indicates several exoplanets similar to Earth that orbit red dwarf stars in the “Goldilocks Zone,” aka the right distance away to potentially allow for liquid ... Read More »

Scientists from the University of California have said that a planet located about 1,200 light-years away from Earth and has surface liquid water in all probabilities is a good prospect for a habitable world. The planet, which is situated in the direction of the constellation Lyra, has been named Kepler-62f. It is approximately 40 per cent larger in size than ... Read More »

The mystery about the prehistoric creatures depicted in Canada Post’s exciting new Dinos of Canada stamp series is whether they are the hunters or the hunted. The series, unveiled today, depicts five beasts from Canada’s geological past as reflections in the eyes of their prey or the predators stalking them. They are vividly illustrated by Sergey Krasovskiy, one of the ... Read More »

All mentions of Australia were deleted from a major United Nations report on climate change after the Australian government protested that the report could put tourists off. The report contained chapters on Australia’s deteriorating Great Barrier Reef – seriously damaged by warming seas — and environmental issues concerning Tasmania’s fabled old-growth forests and the Northern Territory’s Kakadu wilderness areas which ... Read More »

Researchers have theorized that whatever killed the dinosaurs didn’t make it all the way to the poles, but a new study found convincing evidence that at least one polar region was not a safe hiding place. Published in the journal Nature Communications, the new study’s analysis of more than 6,000 marine fossils found populations of marine animals living around Antarctica ... Read More »

An American torpedo bomber lost during World War II has been found off the Pacific nation of Palau by researchers from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography. An American aircraft, a TBM-1C Avenger, missing since July 1944 was recently located in the waters surrounding the Pacific Island nation of Palau by Project RECOVER—a collaborative effort to combine the most ... Read More »

An international team of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) has discovered a new class of galaxies. Dubbed as “red geysers”, that harbors supermassive black hole winds so hot and energetic it prevents the formation of new stars. According to a new research published in the journal Nature, low-energy supermassive black holes in a class of galaxies known ... Read More »

A breakthrough by Australian scientists could make infra-red technology easy-to-use and cheap, potentially saving millions of dollars in defence and other areas using sensing devices. The study has demonstrated a jump in the absorption efficiency of light in a layer of semiconductor that is only a few hundred atoms thick – to almost 99 percent light absorption from the current ... Read More »

Frances Arnold, an American biochemical engineer and a professor of chemical engineering, bioengineering and biochemistry at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena was awarded $1.2 million Millennium Technology Prize for her discoveries in “directed evolution” in Helsinki in Finland last Tuesday. With her selection, Frances Arnold is the fourth U.S. Citizen to win the prestigious Millennium Technology Prize from ... Read More »

More than 100,000 bats have descended on the New South Wales holiday town of Batemans Bay with one local politician declaring it a disaster after residents were hit with a wave of dirt and destruction. As a result, residents could not open their windows or go outside their homes. Even studying becomes difficult because of the noise outside, complains Danielle ... Read More »