Sci/Environment

An orphaned sea otter pup in California has officially landed a forever home. She was first discovered on September 30th when a passerby on an evening stroll heard her cries. The baby was in a […]

On Earth, when light is visible in the sky just before sunrise, or just after sunset, it is caused by grains of dust in space that scatter the sunlight, making it what astronomers refer to […]

Astronomers have identified a lot of celestial bodies in numerous solar systems, but getting to them is another matter. Thanks to science and its super-powerful gadgets, we still have an idea what many of them […]

Water in the world’s largest aquifers is being pumped out at greater rates than can be replenished naturally. NASA says this poses a greater threat to US food supplies and global security than previously thought, […]

Via an article in The Daily Mail:  “It is an incredible image of oceans on another world. Nasa today released this incredible mosaic showing the sun glinting off polar seas on titan, one of Saturn’s […]

Have you ever been thinking about someone and then suddenly received a call from them? An international team of scientists has done one better by achieving actual and verifiable long distance brain-to-brain communication. Said one […]

An Australian man who “surfed” a floating whale carcass surrounded by sharks has admitted that he was an “idiot” to attempt the foolhardy feat. Harrison Williams, 26, was on a boating excursion with friends off […]

Via NTDTV:  A journalist from a space education publication captured on video the moment an unmanned Antares rocket exploded seconds after lift-off from a commercial launch pad in Virginia on Tuesday. The footage of Tuesday’s […]

We are currently living in the Holocene epoch, but some geologists think the influence of human activity on the planet has reached a point where we have entered a new geological time period. This means […]

Scientists have identified a woman who can see infinitely more colors than the average person. People with the ability to see nearly a hundred million variations in color are called tetrachromats. This is caused by […]