Modern living may have originated roughly 500,000 years earlier than it is believed and was actually invented by Homo Erectus-our hairy, heavy-browed ancestor species- and not the “modern” humans, Homo Sapiens, according to a new study.
At the prehistoric Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site in northern Israel, researchers have found the earliest known evidence of social [...]
Washington, December 31 (ANI): A new study has determined that glaciers that naturally melt each summer along the Gulf of Alaska flush out huge amounts of ancient carbon, made up mostly of dead microbes, which feeds Alaska’s marine animals.
According to a report in National Geographic News, those microbes had feasted on ancient [...]
Washington, December 30 (ANI): Reports indicate that vaccines being made to protect people from swine flu are developed by killing sharks, thus endangering the animals further.
According to a report in National Geographic News, millions of doses of the pandemic H1N1/09 vaccine contain a substance [...]
Washington, December 29 (ANI): A new research has indicated that “night shining” clouds are getting brighter all over the world.
“Night shining” clouds, or shimmering noctilucent clouds, are very thin and wispy, which makes them almost invisible during the day.
Appearing after sunset, these clouds are high enough [...]
Washington, December 29 (ANI): Senegalese officials are proposing to build a wall of trees that would stretch from Senegal to Djibouti as part of a plan to thwart the southward spread of the Sahara desert.
The [...]
Washington, December 25 (ANI): A new study has determined that an ancient dwarf whale unearthed in southeastern Australia captured its prey by slurping up mouthfuls of mud.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the fossil whale, thought to be between [...]
Washington, December 25 (ANI): A new research has determined that Earth’s north magnetic pole is racing toward Russia at almost 40 miles (64 kilometers) a year due to magnetic changes in the planet’s core.
The core is too deep for scientists to directly detect its magnetic field. But researchers can infer the field’s movements by [...]
Washington, December 23 (ANI): An article in the National Geographic News has listed the top ten dinosaur and fossil finds of the year 2009.
At number 10 is a study that found the fossils of largest trilobites ever discovered, which [...]
Washington, Dec 22 (ANI): Scientists from Sweden’s University of Gothenburg have found that ‘pregnant’ male pipefish actually suck the life out of some of their own offspring.
It is well known that after conception, the female pipefish passes the hundred or so fertilized eggs to the male.
They carry the embryos via specialized blood vessels and [...]
Washington, December 18 (ANI): A new study has found that a rare bat which roosts upright clings to slick leaves by secreting a “modified sweat” into pads on its wrists and ankles.
Until now, scientists had thought that the bat, which is a Madagascar native dubbed Myzopoda aurita, or sucker-footed bat, used its pads like biological [...]
Washington, December 16 (ANI): A recent article in National Geographic News has made a list of the top ten environmental losses of the year 2009.
At number one is the finding that the environmental challenge of global warming has worsened.
2009 saw vast patches of the planet protected and world leaders pledge to fight global warming, [...]
Washington, December 15 (ANI): A report released at the Copenhagen conference by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed ten species likely to suffer huge losses due [...]
Washington, December 14 (ANI): Scientists have discovered the fossil of a new species of extinct pygmy sea cow, which is one of the first fossil mammal species found in Madagascar from the mysterious time period between 80 million years ago and 90,000 years ago.
Sea cows, or sirenians, today include manatees and dugongs.
“There’s a big gap [...]
Washington, December 12 (ANI): The discovery of the remains of a dog-size T. Rex ancestor has shed new light on dinosaur evolutionary history, a new study claims.
Hikers at New Mexico’s fossil-rich Ghost Ranch found the 6 feet long and 215-million-year-old Tawa hallae.
It also includes the tail of the extinct animal, reports the National Geographic News.
According [...]
London, Dec 10(ANI): Researchers believe that a newly detected 19th-century volcanic eruption may solve the mystery of the ‘cool decade in the early 1800s’.
Scientists have long blamed the 1815 eruption of an Indonesian volcano, Tambora, for a worldwide cold snap the following year, the so-called year [...]
Washington, December 7 (ANI): An article in the National Geographic News has listed the top ten space finds of the year 2009.
At number 10 is the finding that a new computer model has suggested that the outer crusts of so-called neutron stars are ten billion times stronger than steel, and are in fact, the strongest [...]
Washington, December 7 (ANI): A new DNA-based study has shown that many of the hammerhead sharks that are butchered to feed Asian demand for shark-fin soup start their lives in American waters.
According to a report in National [...]
Washington, December 7 (ANI): Reports indicate that nature has gone wireless in Ireland, where scientists have outfitted a major river with sensors that detect spikes in pollution in real time.
According to a report in National Geographic News, sensors recently placed at various points in the River Lee, near the city of Cork, send information on [...]
Washington, December 5 (ANI): The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the “Big Bang Machine”, has taken its first step toward finding the “God Particle”, as the first scientific results from the recently restarted particle accelerator have been announced.
The LHC, which is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, lies in a tunnel 27 [...]
Washington, December 5 (ANI): The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), popularly known as the “Big Bang Machine”, has taken its first step toward finding the “God Particle”, as the first scientific results from the recently restarted particle accelerator have been announced.
The LHC, which is the world’s largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, lies in a tunnel 27 [...]
Washington, December 4 (ANI): In a new article, the National Geographic News has listed the top ten discoveries of the year 2009.
At number 10 comes the discovery of an ultra-rare megamouth shark, which at 13-feet long, was caught on March 30 by [...]
Washington, December 4 (ANI): Reports indicate that NASA’s Mars rover Spirit has hit “wet” pay dirt, which is evidence of relatively recent groundwater activity on the red planet.
For almost six months the rover has been precariously perched on the edge of a shallow crater [...]
Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): When male blue-footed boobies take a yearlong break from sex, they get a brighter shade of blue in their feet the following year, which makes them more attractive to females, says a new study.
Blue-footed boobies are best known for their bright blue webbed feet, which the males prominently display in courtship [...]
Washington, November 28 (ANI): A new research has rubbished reports which suggest that a remote Brazilian town filled with blonde, blue-eyed twins is proof of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele’s plans of building an Aryan “master race”.
Recent reports have indicated that Candido Godoi, a [...]
Washington, November 26 (ANI): Scientists have found a telltale “bathtub ring” of minerals inside an ancient Martian impact crater, which has led them to suggest that Mars may have once hosted a body of water roughly the size of Lake Michigan.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the find means that Columbus crater, in [...]
Washington, November 25 (ANI): An article in National Geographic News has made four predictions in which human beings may, or may not evolve in the future.
The first prediction is that human evolution has now come to a stop.
Natural selection, as outlined in Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species”, occurs when a genetic mutation is [...]
Washington, November 22 (ANI): In a new study, scientists have discovered the only known “predator” corals to eat adult jellyfish.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the study, led by scientists from Israel’s Bar-Ilan University and Tel Aviv University, witnessed a mushroom coral ingesting a roughly 4-and-a-half-inch-wide (12-centimeter) moon jellyfish in the Red Sea [...]
Washington, November 21 (ANI): Scientists have determined that colorful cave deposits found on the walls of lava tubes, long thought to be ordinary minerals, are actually mats of waste excreted by previously unknown types of microbes, a discovery that offer clues in the search for life on Mars and beyond.
According to a report in National [...]
Washington, November 19 (ANI): In a new research, scientists have discovered a new giant wormlike amphibian species that can survive on land with no nostrils, lungs, or legs.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the creature, found in Guyana, is part of the wormlike [...]
Washington, November 18 (ANI): A treasure trove of Tibetan art and manuscripts uncovered in “sky high” Himalayan caves in Nepal could be linked to the storybook paradise of Shangri-La.
According to a report in National Geographic News, the 15th-century religious texts and wall paintings were found [...]
