Scientists have been inquisitive about enormously massive galaxies that were already old and no longer forming new stars in the very early universe, approx. 3 billion years after the Big Bang. By arraying NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, the mystery surrounding the evolution of compact elliptical galaxies, have been solved. Now new research from the … [Read more...]
Whale Shark Slaughterhouse Exposed In China
Hong Kong-based conservation group WildLifeRisk said it has uncovered the biggest ever whale shark slaughterhouse in Puqi, near Wenzhou, in China’s southeastern Zhejiang Province. Hong Kong-based conservation group WildLifeRisk claimed the factory which was under the perfectly indecipherable front name: China Wenzhou Yueqing Marine Organisms Health Protection Foods Co. Ltd is reportedly … [Read more...]
Climate change posing threat to Penguine-chick in Argentina
The deteriorating climatic condition and global warming is affecting the penguin-chick highly in Argentina. A new study suggests their mortality rates have increased in recent years off the coast of Argentina due to the climate change. Between 1983 and 2010, researchers at the University of Washington observed a colony of around 400,000 Magellanic penguins that were living halfway up the coast … [Read more...]
Monarch butterflies At A Record Low
A new report, based on a December 2013 survey of Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve said that One of North America’s most stunning and little-understood phenomena of the annual winter migration to central Mexico by millions of monarch butterflies from the northern United States and Canada, is in danger of disappearing. Report from World Wildlife Fund, Mexico's Environment Department … [Read more...]
Human Beings Unfit For Space
Researchers in a study said that human body is yet not ready for life in space. They are concerned about the long-term health effects space can have on astronauts. A typical human being is constituted of about 60 percent water, and in the free fall of space, the body’s fluids float upward, into the chest and the head. It causes the problem of poor eyesight, brittle bone, cancer, legs atrophy, … [Read more...]
Generating Electricity Using Bacteria
Researchers from Harvard’s Wyss Institute of Biologically Inspired Engineering and several other Universities have discovered a new electric generator from a modest and unexpected energy source i.e. a small strip of latex rubber coated with bacterial spores. The harmless soil bacterium Bacillus subtilis turns itself into a toughened spore that can withstand heat and pressure. These spores … [Read more...]
Chameleon of the sea revealing nature’s camouflage
A recent news release from Harvard University gave an insight on cuttlefish’s camouflaging techniques. It will help military members during war times. The cuttlefish, also called the “chameleon of the sea,” can swiftly alter both the color and pattern of its skin, letting it to unify in its surroundings and conceal from predators. In a paper published January 29 in the Journal of the Royal … [Read more...]
Whale shark now victim to fish oil market
The whale shark, the largest known extant fish species, is falling prey to a growing US demand for fish oil products, according to a Hong Kong-based wildlife conservation group. The aquatic animal is illegal to catch in most places and illegal to process in China. According to an investigative report released by NGO WildLifeRisk, at one of the fish processing plants in China’s eastern … [Read more...]
300,000-Year-Old Hearth Found in Israel
Fire, the most important innovations in humanity’s evolutionary history, lacks a trace in the archaeological record regarding its evolution. The range of first turned fire from a natural phenomenon to a tool is absurdly large, straddling anywhere from 1.7 million years ago to as recently as 400,000. A new study published in a paper titled "Evidence for the repeated use of a central hearth at … [Read more...]
Astronauts Successful In Installing UrtheCast Cameras On International Space Station
Cape Canaveral -Two space station Russian astronauts made second spacewalk to complete a camera job left undone at the end of December. On Monday Oleg Kotov and Sergey Ryazanskiy endeavor outside the International Space Station to install a pair of new high and medium definition cameras. The mission emerged to have been triumphant, even though reports states that one camera's data link was … [Read more...]
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