Birds sensed tornadoes coming and fled days before they came
Birds, specifically golden-winged warblers in the eastern Tennessee mountains, fled their breeding grounds one to two days before a series of tornadoes hit the...
NASA’s Kepler space telescope discovers huge alien planet
NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered the first alien planet since its malfunction in May 2013.
Researchers announced that the newly discovered world is HIP...
Fraud proof credit cards using quantum physics developed in the Netherlands
Using a system based on quantum physics, dubbed Quantum Secure Authentication, it will soon be possible to make credit cards and ID cards fraud proof,...
NASA’s Rover may have found evidence of life on Mars
NASA's Curiosity Rover may have found evidence of life on Mars.
The robot, which landed on Mars in 2012, has detected unusual spikes of methane that...
British Columbia approves Site C dam
The $9 billion Site C dam has been approved by British Columbia. According to Premier Christy Clark, residents in the province will receive a...
Greenland ice sheets melting more rapidly than previously thought
A new study indicates that the Greenland Ice Sheet could be losing ice more rapidly in the near future than previously thought.
The Greenland Ice...
Annual Christmas Bird Count begins
The Annual Christmas Bird Count started on December 14th and ends on January 5th. Tens of thousands of volunteers across the Americas participate in...
LHC to operate at double the energy of its first run in 2015
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is preparing for a second three-year run in March 2015 - at double its original collisional energy.
The European Organization...
Fire was mastered about 350,000 years ago, Tabun study suggests
Humans started using fire regularly about 350,000 years ago, suggests a team of researchers from the University of Haifa, Israel, who examined artifacts at...
Greenpeace stunt at Nazca lines damaged the archeological site, Peru outraged
Greenpeace used the world-famous Nazca lines to place a giant message saying “Time for Change, The Future is Renewable,” which furious Peruvian officials say...