Science

News 12/25/21, 05:46

On Thursday, Dec. 23, researches reported that they have discovered a 55-foot-long Triassic sea monster in Nevada. The ancient sea monster existed in the early days of the dinosaurs. Its species developed to enormous proportions in only 2.5 million years of evolutionary time. The new species was given the name Cymbospondylus youngorum ...

News 12/01/21, 10:44

U.S. scientists revealed that they have developed the first-ever self-duplicating "robot" originated from living cells. These "xenobots" look similar to Pac-Man, a video game character, Sciencealert reported. Origin of the "xenobots" Computer scientist and roboticist Joshua Bongard from the University of Vermont said that xenobots could not be classified as traditional robots or ...

Australia & Oceania 05/20/21, 17:56

How can you keep your brain's ability to function as you get older? It’s probably a bit less work, a study shows.  Scientists suggest an average of 3 days’ worth of working hours would preserve brain capacity for those 40 and over.  The conclusion was published in a Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic ...

U.S. 05/19/21, 02:25

Multiple social media platforms went into overdrive after a Dutchman posted a photo of his daughter, who oddly seemed to be half-submerged in a cobblestone pavement. "My daughter, where is the rest of her?" Tim Kietzmann said on Reddit. "Ohh I see, do you?" The image shows a little girl wearing a pink ...

U.S. 10/25/19, 13:09

President Donald Trump's administration is prioritizing the protection of scientific research institutions from possible theft by foreign states. Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and principal scientific adviser to President Trump, said in an Sept. 16 open letter that in recent years "some nations ...

Space 10/15/18, 22:17

One of NASA's space telescopes is back in business after a two-day shutdown. NASA said Monday that the Chandra X-ray Observatory came back online Friday. Chandra's trouble occurred less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope was sidelined. In both cases, the problem was in the pointing system. Officials say a ...

Science 09/16/18, 01:27

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nature expresses its fury in sundry ways. Two deadly storms — Hurricane Florence and Typhoon Mangkhut — roared ashore on the same day, half a world apart, but the way they spread devastation was as different as water and wind.