ENVIRONMENT & CLIMATERobert H. Brown is an important research vessel of NOAA that completes the longest voyage and explores important information about El Nino and other climate factors.
Sex leads the male garter snakes towards the death. University of Sydney scientist Dr. Christopher R Friesen found that stressful reproductive strategies actually shortens telomere.
Geologists claim Britain was once attached to Europe and about 125,000 years ago a catastrophic flooding led to Britain becoming an island and getting disconnected from the rest of Europe.
Scientists debated over the reason behind the high rate of wars among the Maya civilization. A new study suggests its link to climate change and the warming temperature.
Buyers beware, a number of questionable Dead Sea Scrolls allegedly made its way into US collectors. Unpublished fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls are stirring controversies whether they are authentic or modern-day forgeries.
Scientists provided clues that new species evolve faster as the mountains continue to form. Old species will branch out to form new species that can adapt to new environmental features.
A master climber crab was found from the Western ghat mountain of India. Local Kani people first found the crab in a tree and reported the sightings at the Department of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries.
One-horned rhinoceros belongs to the vulnerable group and so the authority in Nepal takes initiatives to increase the population of this rare species by relocating them to a new destination.
A new recycling technique was developed to breathe new life in used textiles and fabrics. A new recycling technique similar to the way people recycle papers can make used clothes into reusable fibers.
Melting of sea ice in the summers creates algae and other microorganisms which provide food for other marine creatures. Some foods get sunk to the bottom of the sea and get eaten by seabed dwellers.
Researchers found that due to these melt ponds, nutrients are able to reach sea creatures more easily in arctic water. The study says that this can be helpful for the life in arctic waters.