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Spotting elephants from space: A satellite revolution
Using the highest resolution satellite imagery currently available—Worldview 3—from Maxar Technologies and deep learning, (TensorFlow API,…
Farmer fish become first animal found domesticating another species
Human civilization wouldn’t be where it is today if we hadn’t domesticated animals to be either…
The mystery of how insects developed wings has finally been solved
In 1870, a German anatomist named Karl Gegenbaur was the first person to theorize that abdominal…
Scientists Propose a Brand New Periodic Table, And It’s a Trip
The periodic table of the elements, principally created by the Russian chemist, Dmitry Mendeleev (1834-1907), celebrated…
Scientists accidentally discover Australian marsupials glow in the dark
A glow up for some of Australia’s most unique creatures. Read more at CNET…
A68 iceberg on collision path with South Georgia
If the world’s biggest iceberg grounds at South Georgia island, it could devastate local wildlife. Read…
A hunk of Earth’s surface lies 400 miles under China – Futurity
A piece of Earth’s lithosphere deep below China offers clues about the fate of tectonic plates…
Scientists Found an Ancient Tectonic Plate Buried Deep Inside the Earth’s Mantle – ExtremeTech
Geologists have found the remains of a previous continental plate that had only been theorized to…
Weird Circles Keep Popping Up Around the World. Alan Turing Predicted Them in 1952.
Here’s what they mean—and how the legendary scientist got them so right. Read more at Popular…
‘The Wire’ Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
Scientists 3D-printed sea turtle eggs and stuffed transmitters inside. When poachers pulled them out of nests,…
Rising Temperatures Are Pushing Antarctica Past Point of No Return, Scientists Warn
Raising Earth’s average surface temperature another degree Celsius will lock in 2.5 metres of sea level…
World’s Richest One Percent Are Producing More Than Double the Carbon Emissions as the Bottom 50 Percent
Climate fires explicitly links record-breaking blazes that have burned across california, oregon and washington to global…
World’s wildlife populations fell 68% since 1970: WWF | DW | 10.09.2020
The environment advocacy organization has warned of “staggering” decline in global wildlife populations. A study published…
Earth barreling toward ‘Hothouse’ state not seen in 50 million years, epic new climate record shows
Record goes back to the dinosaur extinction. Read more at livescience.com…
Giant Gaping Void Emerges in Siberia, The Latest in a Dramatic Ongoing Phenomenon
A bubble of methane gas, swelling beneath Siberia’s melting permafrost for who knows how long, has…
Study suggests hibernation was an ancient adaptation to harsh winters
The image seen below is an illustration of a creature called a Lystrosaurus. The strange-looking creature…
429-million-year-old trilobite eye fossil ‘almost identical to that of modern bees’
Digital microscopy showed the fossilised trilobite had a ‘fully modern type of visual system’ similar to…
Weird ‘boomerang’ earthquake detected under the Atlantic Ocean
The temblor shot across the seafloor and back to where it started so fast it created…
Mystery solved: 240-million-year-old reptile with ‘extraordinarily long neck’ lived in the ocean
Tanystropheus was first described in 1852 but until now, scientists didn’t know whether the 6m-long reptile…