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02/14/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Ancient ingenuity: Amazon tribes built fishponds to survive long droughts

According to a study led by researchers from the Federal University of Western Para in Brazil along with colleagues from France and Germany, ancient tribes that lived in the Llanos de Moxos region in Bolivia for thousands of years used a network of fish ponds to support their settlements. The researchers also believe that these fish ponds were used […]

02/14/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Scientists dig up perfectly preserved 42,000-year-old horse – with blood and internal organs intact

Is the world ready to enter the gates of a real-life Jurassic – or in this case, Cenozoic – Park? An international team of scientists seems to think so. The idea stems from an announcement made by scientists working deep in the frozen Siberian tundra concerning the successful extraction of liquid blood from the frozen carcass of […]

02/13/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Wet-dog smell, tobacco smoke and skunk spray: Various factors affect how long an unpleasant scent lingers, explain researchers

The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different scents. Many of these smells will come and go fairly quickly. However, others, such as disgusting smells, don’t disappear fast enough. The brain recognizes smells with the help of special sensory cells known as olfactory receptor neurons that are located inside the nose. Once they receive a […]

02/09/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

French researchers claim to have created metallic hydrogen in a lab: Material can “conduct electricity indefinitely at room temperature”

Metallic hydrogen is a state of hydrogen wherein the element is able to conduct electricity. Scientists have spent close to a century attempting to create this material. A team of French researchers now claim that they’ve done it. Normally, hydrogen isn’t a great conductor. However, physicists since the 1930s have suspected that if hydrogen were to be […]

02/08/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

Fascinating study finds that the presence of atmospheric oxygen triggers the removal of webbed digits in amphibians and amniotes

A study published in the journal Developmental Cell found that when certain animal species detect the presence of atmospheric oxygen, their webbed digits can turn into free fingers. This is especially the case in the embryotic development of amphibians and amniotes, which includes birds, reptiles and even mammals, all of which are capable of having either webbed digits […]

02/07/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Cat experts say: Your cat is familiar with its own name

Looks like T.S. Eliot and Andrew Lloyd Webber got it right. If you’ve ever seen the stage musical CATS, an integral scene at the beginning of the show lays out an important fact: Cats can recognize their names. As it turns out, there is truth to that. In a recent study, researchers from Sophia University […]

02/07/2020 / By Arsenio Toledo

NASA presents new images of dwarf planet Ceres: Digital renders show a mountain “unlike anything humanity has seen before”

Constructed images from NASA reveal an “ice mountain” on Ceres, a dwarf planet orbiting within the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The pictures were taken by the now-retired NASA spacecraft Dawn back in 2015. The images of Ceres it transmitted featured mysterious “bright spots” on the surface of the dwarf planet. One of these spots is the ice mountain, […]

02/05/2020 / By Michael Alexander

A quake in 1959 sent “time traveling” aftershocks that were felt 60 years later

Sixty years after it left a trail of death and destruction, a powerful earthquake is still making its presence felt, according to a new study. In a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, researchers from the University of Utah determined that the small earthquakes that rocked Maple Creek, just outside of Yellowstone volcano […]

02/04/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Carnivorous pitcher plants have an occasional taste for vertebrates, study finds

While the northern pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea) is well-known for consuming insects and other invertebrates as supplementary food, a recent study published in the journal Ecology points out that about one in five pitcher plants in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park has upgraded its menu to include juvenile salamanders. While Asiatic pitcher plants such as the Philippines’ Nepenthes attenboroughii are […]

02/04/2020 / By Michael Alexander

Scientists revise astrobiology guidelines, significantly reducing the estimated number of planets where signs of extraterrestrial life might be found

Scientists may have to update their estimates regarding the number of planets capable of supporting life. In a study published in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers from the University of California, Riverside, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Chicago and Columbia University said most planets in the known galaxy are actually unfit to support complex life, their locations in the so-called “habitable zone” notwithstanding. The […]

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