Lava Fingerprinting Reveals Differences Between Hawaiian Volcanoes
According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Nature Geoscience, Hawaii’s main volcano chains, the Loa and Kea, have distinct sources…
According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Nature Geoscience, Hawaii’s main volcano chains, the Loa and Kea, have distinct sources…
The U.K. government wants some new sophisticated radar satellites around the Earth in order to view the planet’s surface through any type of weather, no…
Robots that can jump are nothing new, but Jianguo Zhao, a PhD student at Michigan State, has developed a robot that can not only jump…
Will Medical Examiners be replaced by technology? A new study conducted by British researchers indicates that screening bodies with full-body computed tomography (CT) or magnetic…
Ravens, like humans, just want to have fun. They do their survival thing and when the time is right, they seek out companionship for a…
What does an Astronaut do with his free time when he’s bored? The answer is, pretty much anything he wants. He’s in space; no one…
A new study suggests that sauropod dinosaurs had some special bones that gave them a boost during hard times. This boost came in the form…
Just what causes lightning? Amazingly we still do not know. We know what it is, just not why. There have been numerous experiments to study…
The race is on to decode whale song and you can help. A global crowdsourcing experiment may finally be what is needed to unlock the…
This may not look like the future of robots that we were promised in movies like Star Wars and Star Trek, but according to scientists…
What has long since been a mystery that has baffled archeologists and scientists alike, Stonehenge is starting to reveal some of its secrets. Archaeologists that…
Maybe those 19th-century doctors were on to something when they used electroshock therapy as a treatment for a myriad of medical problems. New findings that…
There’s no question that we humans have been a violent species. All you need to do is watch the nightly news or any given blockbuster…
There is no shortage of brave humans that will rush into a hazardous or dangerous area in order to help people, but the problem is…
Knowledge a hindrance? It flies in the face of reason, right? Well, in this case too much knowledge is a bad thing. A new study…
Elephants and African farmers have had a long history of conflict, but now Lucy King’s work is helping to bring an end to it, using…
Scientists have reported that they have successfully transplanted human stem cell-derived neurons into the brains of living mice. Human embryonic stem cells grown in a…
In the old days it used to be largely guess-work when determining which alien worlds might be most livable, but not anymore. These days we…