Forgotten Ichthyosaur left in museum for decades was a new species
A 189-million-year-old Ichthyosaur fossil that lay forgotten among lots of other specimens at the Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery in England, turned out to...
Using photosynthesis to create a biological solar panel and battery
Three Canadian researchers believe they could well have the solution to the global warming problem. They plan to use the power of photosynthesis to...
Black hole size and speed of growth driven by dark matter, say American astrophysicists
Dark matter appears to influence both the size and rate of growth of black holes, say scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA)....
For evolution size really does seem to matter, say Stanford scientists
Evolution tends to favor size, paleobiologists at Stanford University believe. Their latest research suggests that the majority of animal lineages tend to evolve toward...
Super powerful electron microscope SuperSTEM 3 is 100 times better than any other
SuperSTEM 3, the most powerful electron microscope in the world, that can pinpoint the position of single atoms, has been installed at the Engineering...
Human aggression threatens to destroy us all, says Stephen Hawking
Human aggression probably helped our ancient ancestors survive, said Professor Stephen Hawking, but today it is the human race’s biggest flaw and “threatens to...
Coral bleaching across the globe in 2015, NOAA warns
Scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned that warm ocean temperatures in the Indian and Pacific Oceans could trigger major coral...
Amur Tigers living and reproducing in China at the Wangqing Nature Reserve
The Amur Tiger, also known as the Siberian Tiger, is living and reproducing in China again, according to video footage captured by a World...
Dark matter linked to mass extinctions on Earth and comet impacts says researcher
Planet Earth occasionally passes around and through the Milky Way’s disc, which is full of dark matter and could influence the occurrence of geological...
Fizzy a new species of ichthyosaur found at Doncaster Museum
“Fizzy” had languished at the Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery's fossil collection for several decades, and nobody knew it was an undiscovered species of ichthyosaur. Ichthyosaurs...