Science

Insect migration has long been fascinating to me. I’ve written several posts on this before, including one on migrating moths and one on painted lady butterflies. We’ve long known that many dragonfly species are long-distance migrants, including the large charismatic green darner. Citizen science records have helped document that migration, …

When dinosaurs roamed the Earth in ancient Patagonia, one particular type of dinosaur might have stuck out amongst the rest. Living 140 million years ago in the early Lower Cretaceous, the newly discovered herbivore Bajadasaurus pronuspinax had a thing for growing spikes. It was part of the Sauropod family, but looked a little …

Let’s face it – doom and gloom have become par for the course when it comes to reports about the state of Mother Earth, with stories detailing a warming climate, extreme weather events, and the extinction of various species taking over headlines with tragic regularity. Unusually, the damage to the …

NASA’s New Horizons probe has returned the sharpest images of Ultima Thule to date, taken during the spacecraft’s historic flyby of the Kuiper Belt object on January 1, 2019. This composite picture combines nine individual images taken with New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), each with an exposure time …

When humans go through big changes in life, their personality traits can change. In a study published in the Journal of Research in Personality, a duo of researchers from Michigan State University found that this also happens with dogs — and to a surprisingly large degree. Additionally, the team found …

  Virgin Galactic is inching closer and closer to making its commercial spaceflight service a reality. The company just completed yet another test flight of its rocket-powered spaceplane, reaching the highest altitude yet of 55.87 miles (89.8 kilometers). At this rate, founder Richard Branson has expressed optimism that he’ll be …

What was once thought to be a scattering of ancient stone huts on the outskirts of Johannesburg, South Africa, has turned out to be the remnants of a thriving city, lost to history for 200 years. Beneath the dense vegetation, there isn’t much to see with the naked eye. And …

Off the coastline of Egypt scuba divers have actually uncovered something that was believed to be shed a very long time back. It was stated that the old city of Heracleion was shed under the sea permanently. Well 1200 years later on, off the bay of Aboukir, this old city …

Deep learning has recently revolutionized the field of machine hearing and vision, by allowing computers to perform human-like activities including seeing, listening, and speaking. Such systems are constructed from biomimetic, ‘deep,’ artificial neural networks. Now a team of researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine has created deep …

Paleontologists have actually discovered a brand-new types of marsupial that lived throughout the Cretaceous duration over the Arctic Circle, the farthest north marsupials have actually ever before been discovered. Unnuakomys hutchisoni. Photo credit score: James Havens. Unnuakomys hutchisoni. Picture credit report: James Havens. The brand-new marsupial, called Unnuakomys hutchisoni, belongs …