Extremophiles thrive in ultra harsh environments, exhibition at American Museum of Natural History
Extremophiles are organisms that thrive in geochemically and physically extreme conditions including boiling liquid, super acid pools, extremely low temperatures, and even the vacuum and...
Microsoft launches mobile scanner app “Office Lens” for iOS and Android
Microsoft launched its mobile document scanning app called Office Lens for iOS and Android smartphones.
The app essentially turns a users phone into a pocket scanner...
Toxic and oxygen-starved oceans caused mass extinction 200 million years ago
Two hundred million years ago, half of all plant, animal and marine life became extinct, and evidence shows that oxygen-depleted toxic oceans played a...
Tiny songbird completes incredible 1500 mile fly-or-die migration every year
A tiny songbird, the 0.42 oz (12 gram) Blackpoll Warbler flies from 1,410 to 1,720 miles (2270 to 2770 km) over the sea non-stop...
Large Hadron Collider set to restart after short circuit problem fixed
The world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator, the Large Hardon Collider (LHC), is set to restart this weekend after scientists fixed a short circuit...
Birds matter more than renewable energy schemes, says Jonathan Franzen
American novelist and essayist Jonathan Franzen argues that birds matter more than renewable energy schemes aimed at combating climate change and ultimately protecting humans....
Source of galaxy clusters discovered by cosmologists
Cosmologists believe they have discovered the source of the vast cluster of galaxies we see today, after combining observational data of the distant Universe...
Intelligent aliens may be sending those fast radio bursts, scientists say
Mysterious radio bursts from deep space are sent in such dispersion measures that they are unlikely to have come from something natural, scientists say,...
Complete camel skeleton from Ottoman Empire found in Austria
Archaeologists were amazed to find a complete camel skeleton in Tulln, Lower Austria, dating back to the 17th century during the Second Ottoman War....
British critically endangered butterfly makes spectacular comeback
In 2014, High Brown Fritillary, Britain’s most critically endangered butterfly, made a spectacular comeback as conservationists registered a population increase of 180% compared to...