Earth is on a budget – an energy budget. Our planet is constantly trying to balance…
Category: Nature
There Appears to Be a Huge Chunk of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth
“I think it’s completely viable until someone tells me it’s not.” Read more at Futurism…
Microbes Unknown to Science Discovered on The International Space Station
The menagerie of bacterial and fungal species living among us is ever growing – and this…
The world’s oldest crater from a meteorite isn’t an impact crater after all
Several years after scientists discovered what was considered the oldest crater a meteorite made on the…
Scientists Create Self-Replicating Chemicals to Explain the Origins of Life
An enduring question about how we got here is how a vat of primordial chemicals might…
Solar panels in the Sahara could damage global climate
Covering the Sahara desert in solar panels could generate plenty of clean energy, but the heat…
New research suggests a polar flip could be catastrophic
Earth’s magnetic poles are constantly on the move, but they haven’t drifted far enough to actually…
Earth’s magnetic field flipped 42,000 years ago, creating a climate ‘disaster’
See you on the flip side. Read more at livescience.com…
CO2 Dip May Have Helped Dinosaurs Walk From South America To Greenland – Eurasia Review
A new paper refines estimates of when herbivorous dinosaurs must have traversed North America on a…
Who needs a supercomputer? Your desktop PC and a GPU might be enough to solve some of the largest problems | ZDNet
A new method significantly reduces the amount of memory needed for brain simulations, freeing some AI…
How has Earth stayed habitable for so long? Scientists have 2 theories
To understand how we came to exist on planet Earth, we’ll need to know how Earth…
A critical animal for Earth’s survival has gone missing — study
New research shows that global scientific records of bee species has declined by 25 percent since…
Scientists Find 20 Million-Year-Old Giant Predatory Nightmare Worm
Trace fossils reveal an “life and death struggle between predator and prey” that played in what…
1st preserved dinosaur butthole is ‘perfect’ and ‘unique,’ paleontologist says
This was a multipurpose glory hole. Read more at livescience.com…
The planet is dying faster than we thought
A triple-threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation is bearing down on Earth. Read more…
Birds might be conscious and self-aware like humans, groundbreaking study finds
So, calling someone a ‘bird brain’ is now a compliment? Read more at Mashable SEA…
Spotting elephants from space: A satellite revolution
Using the highest resolution satellite imagery currently available—Worldview 3—from Maxar Technologies and deep learning, (TensorFlow API,…
Farmer fish become first animal found domesticating another species
Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals to be either…
The mystery of how insects developed wings has finally been solved
In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal…
Scientists Propose a Brand New Periodic Table, And It’s a Trip
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated…