Sci/Environment

A whale completely lacking any tail fluke was recently spotted off of the coast of South Island in New Zealand. According to a report from GeoBeats News: On Monday, Mike Morrissey, a ranger with the […]

University of Oxford professor Sir Andrew Wiles has solved an old mathematical problem and been awarded the Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in the field. Sir Andrew Wiles’ proof of Fermat’s Last […]

The European Space Agency in collaboration with Roscosmos have launched a joint mission to explore the atmosphere of Mars and hunt for signs of life. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) took off from Baikonur […]

A team of scientists from Brazil and the United Kingdom have discovered a new type of dinosaur fossil in southern Brazil that lived 250 million years ago.  The reptile, called Teyujagua paradoxa (meaning “fierce lizard” in […]

A researcher has found a Stonehenge style megalithic site at the bottom of Lake Michigan, alongside a boulder with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon.  Mark Holley, professor of underwater archeology at Northwestern Michigan University […]

Scientists measuring the risk of severe earthquakes that could bring havoc to southern California warn of the dangers of the San Andreas and San Jacinto faults rupturing together. Data suggests that they may have ruptured […]

According to new research European honeybees are being poisoned with as many as 57 different pesticides. The alarming discovery was made by a team from the National Veterinary Research Institute in Poland using a method, […]

Scientists in Japan have discovered a new species of bacteria that can digest and breakdown the common plastic known as PET or polyethylene terephthalate. PET is considered to be a major environmental hazard because it […]

Cern scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have said that they may have discovered a new particle that appears to defy the laws of physics.  Scientists say they may have found a fifth […]

German scientists have announced that they have successfully developed a form of teleportation over short distances.  The German physicists from the Friedrich Schiller University say they have used a series of laser beams to transmit information instantaneously […]