Category: General
-
Crocodiles react quickly to sounds of crying babies, study finds
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter Crocodiles are attracted to the sounds of crying human and ape babies, and may react swiftly to make a quick meal out of the infants in distress, a…
-
Scientists Find A Whole New Ecosystem Hiding Beneath Earth’s Seafloor : ScienceAlert
Scientists keep peeling back new layers of life on our planet like a seemingly endless onion. Most recently, aquanauts on board a vessel from the Schmidt Ocean Institute used an underwater robot to turn over slabs of volcanic crust in the deep, dark Pacific. Underneath the seafloor of this well-studied site, the international team of…
-
Royal Ballet School study looks to reduce risk of injuries to dancers
Sign up for a full digest of all the best opinions of the week in our Voices Dispatches email Sign up to our free weekly Voices newsletter The Royal Ballet School is to work with sport scientists on a research project to see how strength training could reduce the risk of injuries to young dancers.…
-
Nile Crocodiles Recognize and React to the Sound of Crying Babies | Science
As one Nile crocodile rests, another perks up near a river in Tanzania. Tim Graham / Getty Images Among humans and many other species, parents have a super sense when it comes to a crying baby. Something in that wordless call communicates distress so clearly that it sparks an instinctive response. And the cries of…
-
500-Million-Year-Old Worm Named After Giant Sandworms in Dune : ScienceAlert
The Dune books (and subsequent movies) are some of the most epic in all of sci-fi, and the iconic Shai-Hulid sandworms from Dune have now inspired the naming of a new species of ancient sea worm, the Shaihuludia shurikeni. The discovery was made in a geologic formation crossing northern Utah and southern Idaho, well known…
-
NASA accidentally killed the only life discovered on Mars, theory suggests
For the past few decades, the hunt for signs of alien life on Mars has been one of NASA’s biggest endeavors, leading to the creation of the Mars Sample Return, allowing us to study Martian samples in-depth in search of life finally. However, a running theory suggests that we already discovered life on Mars 50…
-
Ecosystem thrives in volcanic caves beneath ocean hydrothermal vents | News
A new ecosystem has been discovered in volcanic caves beneath hydrothermal vents at an undersea volcano off Central America. Using an underwater robot, a team of scientists overturned chunks of volcanic crust, discovering cave systems teeming with worms, snails, and chemosynthetic bacteria living in 75 degrees Fahrenheit (25 degrees Celsius) water. The discovery adds a…
-
Reefs Are So Damaged That Fish Have Begun to Use Each Other As Cover
A predatory species of fish has adapted to the destruction of its local coral reef by using another fish, the peace-loving parrotfish, for cover, according to a new study. Researchers and local divers in the Caribbean have long talked about the tactic and painted a similar picture: The long, thin trumpetfish swims alongside the more…
-
The Mystery Genes That Are Keeping You Alive | WIRED
When it came to the substantial number that were unknown, the team conducted one more study, using the best understood (at the genetic level) organism of all: Drosophila melanogaster. These fruit flies have been the subject of research for more than a century because they are easy and inexpensive to breed, have a short life…
-
New SETI Tool Expands the Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe
Are we alone in the universe? There are good reasons to suspect that we have company. After all, the universe is exceptionally large, with possibly billions of Earth-like planets in our Milky Way galaxy, which is but one of trillions of galaxies in the universe. The ingredients for life, as far as we know, are…