Fossils evidence indicates that dinosaurs ate the first birds, as scientists long suspected. Paleontologists have seen a fossil bird inside a dinosaur’s stomach making it the first known evidence that dinosaurs ate their winged relatives.
Climate scientists are studying the underlying causes of previous mass extinction events to gain a better understanding of what may happen as greenhouse gas emissions raise global temperatures.
Meditating is a practice that enables people to go to a deeper state of relaxation and awareness. It has been practices for the longest times by monks, and is now fast becoming a way of life for people practicing the peaceful state.
Acne is a problem that most teenagers go through with shame and ridicule. And to treat this problem, teenagers, with their parents, often resort to oral antibiotics - little do they know that that is just the start of another problem.
My new dog is awesome. But I have a two-week vacation coming up, and I need to find a place for him while I'm away. How do I find a good boarding facility?
Eating is an essential part of life; it's simple and pretty straight-forward. The global population eating though is where it gets complicated. Supplying literally billions of people with food is tricky when the population keeps on growing.
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Some seals can trace and go back to where they were born even after years of spending their lives on the ocean, says the British Antarctic Survey Team.
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Source says the comedian is looking for input from the former President on the food served in her new all-veg restaurant.
Performing a surgery while a patient is inside a magnetic resonance (MRI) machine was next to impossible until the invention of neuroArm, the world’s first robot with this capability.
An ingenious experiment in which tiny parcels of light, or photons, are produced out of empty space has confirmed a long-standing theory that a vacuum contains quantum fluctuations of energy.
Aside from the Gobi Desert images, Google Earth has revealed some strange images. Here are ten weird and wonderful images caught on Google Earth.
Liquid Robotics has launched four Wave Glider unmanned robots to chart the pacific last Nov. 17 2011 in San Francisco. It is their answer for the PacX Challenge, sponsored by Google Earth and Virgin Oceanic, where their findings will be available in Google Earth instantly for the public. The challenge in PacX is to cross the pacific, providing data about the ocean on it. The other participant of the challenge is Virgin Oceanic partnering along with Liquid Robotics to map out the Marianas Trench,...
Is there anything lovelier than a tree? How about a tree that doubles as your house's energy generator? A London company has developed an artificial tree that utilizes renewable energy from the sun and wind to power a house.
Rise in ocean temperature due to global warming triggered coral bleaching, the frequency of which is increasing, which caused the mass death of corals worldwide.
Scientists achieved a feat that sounds almost divine: creating light out of nothing. Researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden, managed to capture photons, the most basic component of light, within a dark vacuum.
Astronomers have discovered for the first time the complete description of a black hole which allowed them to reconstruct the history of the object from its birth around six million years ago.
Rainfall data from space collected by the NASA’s Tropical Rainfall Mission (TRMM) satellite showed that deadly tornadoes and temperature drops of up to 20% are expected to accompany severe storms in some parts of the United States.
Oceana recently called on the 48 fishing member countries of the ICCAT (International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas) to protect endangered sharks, tuna and swordfish.
NASA has announced a one day delay in the launching of $2.5 billion Mars Rover to replace a suspect battery on the rover’s rocket.
The Russian Phobos Grunt mission almost has a zero chance to be revived as Russian space officials have only until today to send the unmanned spacecraft to Mars moon.
Climate change and droughts have gone hand in hand for quite some time now, as climate change causes more droughts that affect the land significantly. But what most people may not know is that drought is actually exacerbating climate change.
NASA will try to find out if the Red Planet ever had life and what made it “hostile” for life with two new missions, one that will roam the surface and another that will orbit the planet and dip briefly into its upper atmosphere.
Man will receive further information about Mars once NASA’s rover Curiosity reaches the so-called red planet in August next year, by which time Australia will celebrate a new milestone in Astronomy.
Australian children suffering from systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA) now have access to Actemra, a biologic treatment recently approved by the Therapeutic Goods Administration.
To some, global warming is still a myth - something that has been concocted to scare people into reducing their emissions. However for scientists, global warming is true, and warns that if carbon dioxide emissions are not reduced or stopped, global warming's 2 degree-Celsius increase will be inevitable.
It was the eve of the deer hunting season in Michigan when Deputy Ryan Swartz responded to a call that a car had hit a deer.
From robot snakes to breathable mattresses designed after honeycombs, more innovative designs are using the art and science of biomimicry. The field of biomimicry has already given consumers hundreds of products and devices that are based on nature.
China arches its enormous muscles and get ready to join the big nations. China sent a person to space in 2003, and finished its first spacewalk in the year 2008.
A study published by Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology claims that the very first tooth most likely belong to an ancient fish. Thevery first pearly whites might have been a set of very sharp scales on a fish's face.
