Environment
Low soil moisture posing threat in most river basins
Factors like temperature, rainfall and soil moisture affect distribution and growth of vegetation. A study of these factors has shown that forest and croplands...
Science
Water carved deep riverbeds on Mars into its history
According to a new study by the University of Chicago scientists, water carved deep riverbeds into the Mar's surface, but what kind of weather...
Space
Hubble spotted a mysterious dark spot on Neptune
Since it’s a discovery in the mid-19th century, Neptune has consistently been a planet of mystery. As the farthest planet from our Sun, Neptune-...
Space
GRAVITY instrument breaks new ground in exoplanet imaging
GRAVITY, a second generation instrument on the ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) used optical interferometry and observed an exoplanet named HR8799e with clouds...
Science
The struggle for life in the Dead Sea sediments
The special features of the Dead Sea don’t end there: the lake’s waters are a light turquoise-blue color and it is surrounded by golden...
Space
NASA’s Curiosity rover spots a bed of Earth-like pebbles
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has recently captured a bed of pebbles that look like they could be sitting along a riverbed right here on...
Science
What happened before Big Bang?
The Big Bang hypothesis is a push to clarify what occurred at the very beginning of our universe. Revelations in astronomy and physics have...
Science
A new class of pentaquarks has been discovered
Until now, we used to thought that a pentaquark was made up of five quarks by sticking together. But now, a new study has...
Social Science
Study finds people who feed birds impact conservation
A bird feeder gives you the opportunity to observe the wonders of nature, taking a little break from the hustle and bustle of daily...
Science
We transition between at least 19 different brain phases when sleeping, study
Before the 1950s, scientists used to believe that as people drifted off to sleep, their brains and bodies would go into shutdown mode, entering...
Science
How the brain perceives time
By social contract, we agree to coordinate our own activities according to clock time. Nevertheless, your brain does not perceive the duration in time...
Technology
A new technique for self-healing the flexible electronics
Flexible electronics isn’t a new technology, but it has achieved remarkable progress over the past years and its importance to other industries have increased....