These reptiles have roamed the oceans for 100 million years. We've put them at risk, but with a little help, they're rebounding.
That left the scientists to engineer into the animals what would become their showstopper trait—the dramatic white fur. Shapiro says the genome code indicated that dire wolves might have had light coats. But the specific pigment genes involved are linked to a risk of albinism,...
— Scientists are undertaking a new project to better understand “dark” oxygen, apparently produced by potato-size metallic rocks on the seabed. The endeavor could help reveal life beyond Earth. — A moon rover-inspired robot named Adam that can shuttle heavy produce across difficult terrain a...
Back of skull, left forelimb, and thorax (from left to right here). Eucritta, another stem-tetrapod. Closer look at Eucritta‘s skull. Weird stem-tetrapod Crassigyrinus, which we’re still trying to figure out. It’s a fabulous specimen in terms of completeness, but messy “roadkill” ...
Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have unveiled a new technique that could help advance the development of quantum technology. Their innovation, surface-sensitive spintronic terahertz spectroscopy (SSTS), provides an unprecedented look at how quantum mater...
How many climate scientists are willing to bend the truth to keep their access to federal grant money? How much money are dissembling students and faculty members at the University of Helsinki receiving from the US Government? How deep is the rot, if the Chancellor of a major university app...
Each year, the genius scientists in university laboratories across the world discover new fascinating facts about the range of emotion different animals really have in comparison to the human race. Rats and dogs have been found to have just as many emotional processes and reactions as people do,...
back to the days of the Tsars (viz. E. H. Carr’sThe Romantic Exiles). Lenin adopted it early in his revolution (viz.Lenin’s Private War), and Hitler applied it to both artists (viz.Exiled in Paradise) and scientists (viz.Hitler’s Gift). The result, as Romains notes, is that,...
They doomed the dodo, which showed no fear of humans, to extinction in the space of just a few decades. Now, a team of scientists wants to bring back the dodo. They hope the project will open up new techniques for bird conservation. “It’s our responsibility to bring stories and to ...
Without the tools of a methane hunter, you can’t see or smell natural gas but virtually all of Earth’s peer-reviewed scientists agree that for life on Earth to survive with any semblance of today, it must go the way of the dodo along with coal and oil. Climatologists at NASA and th...