Insects can see with much higher resolution than thought
The team found that photo receptors resolve small moving objects, even at high speeds, far better than predicted by compound eye optics and reveal the mechanisms behind this remarkable hyperacuity.
Sep 06, 2017, 18:31 PM IST
Antarctic volcanic eruptions linked to abrupt climate changes
Evidence of these changes is found in many parts of the Southern Hemisphere and in different paleoclimate archives, but what prompted these changes has remained largely unexplained.
Sep 06, 2017, 11:57 AM IST
Rising ocean temperatures in Antarctica is affecting marine life – Read
The shallow waters on the West Antarctic Peninsula are reflecting the effects of warming and as per reports, an increase of just 1-2 degrees Celsius in temperature has radically reduced marine diversity.
Sep 04, 2017, 12:55 PM IST
New device can turn heat energy to fuel
Researchers used a simple heating process to modify one layer of the Indium Selenide to act as a metal and another layer to act as a semiconductor.
Sep 03, 2017, 19:34 PM IST
Heat wave hits California, record-high temperature in San Francisco
On Friday, the temperature in downtown San Francisco reached 41.1 degrees Celsius. On Saturday, it increased to 42.7 degrees Celsius, the US National Weather Service said.
Sep 03, 2017, 10:53 AM IST
5.7 million-year-old human-like footprints discovered in Greece
Ever since the discovery of fossils of Australopithecus in South and East Africa during the middle years of the 20th century, the origin of the human lineage has been thought to lie in Africa.
Sep 02, 2017, 18:21 PM IST
Can coral reefs survive rapid pace of climate change?
The researchers from ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies (Coral CoE) at James Cook University and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) have recommended for future research.
Sep 02, 2017, 13:10 PM IST
Volcanic carbon dioxide drove ancient global warming event
The PETM is the most rapid and extreme natural global warming event of the last 66 million years.
Sep 02, 2017, 11:32 AM IST
Global warming boon for Antarctic, may double marine life growth
Researchers at British Antarctic Survey in the UK deployed heated panels on the seabed on the Antarctic Peninsula to observe the effect on local marine species.
Sep 01, 2017, 16:07 PM IST
Human stem cells might combat Parkinson's disease in monkeys
Parkinson's disease leads to degeneration of a specific type of cells in the brain known as dopaminergic (DA) neurons. It has been reported that when the symptoms are first detected, a patient will have already lost more than half of his or her DA neurons.
Sep 01, 2017, 10:55 AM IST
Predatory ants who have spring-loaded jaws that snap shut 700 times faster than you can blink! - Read
They are fearsome predators armed with long, spiky, widely-agape mandibles and their jaws move so fast that it's hard to register the movement and it's already over by the time you do.
Aug 31, 2017, 17:23 PM IST
Rising temperatures causing Caspian Sea to evaporate; scientists reveal worrying statistics
The Caspian Sea, located between Europe and Asia, is about 371,000 square kilometres across in size.
Aug 30, 2017, 19:30 PM IST
Scientists debunk theories about ancient whales being gentle giants, say they were predators – Read
They found that teeth in ancient baleen whales, the ancestors of the Southern Right and Blue whale, were different to the present-day and were instead much sharper.
Aug 30, 2017, 12:09 PM IST
Ultra-thin carbon nanotubes could be the answer to global water crisis - Here's how
Scientists have developed carbon nanotubes over 50,000 times thinner than a human hair which can separate salt from seawater, an advance that may help solve the global water crisis.
Aug 28, 2017, 20:41 PM IST
32-foot-long mammoth whale washes ashore at Brazil beach – Watch
The 32-foot-long creature was found washed up near the capital city and as soon as the locals spotted it, they informed the officials.
Aug 28, 2017, 16:03 PM IST
Researchers identify dinosaur species that roosted like modern birds' 70 million years ago
New remains from the region suggest that at least some dinosaurs likely roosted together to sleep, quite possibly as a family, much like many modern birds do today, researchers said.
Aug 28, 2017, 15:20 PM IST
Rare Amazonian monkey sees the light of dawn for first time in 80 years!
The Vanzolini bald-faced saki has shaggy black hair and distinctive golden legs.
Aug 27, 2017, 16:39 PM IST
Trees provide annual services worth USD 500 mn per magacity
Megacities are home to nearly 10 per cent of the world's 7.5 billion people.
Aug 24, 2017, 09:09 AM IST
Toothless, dwarf dolphin, a case study in evolution
With only a fossilised cranium -- found in a river near Charleston, South Carolina -- to work with, the researchers were able to reconstruct the snub-nosed mammal`s evolutionary saga, describe its facial features and figure out what it snacked on.
Aug 23, 2017, 09:10 AM IST
Rare white koala born at Australian zoo
The white koala is one of 12 joeys born this season at Australia Zoo established by the legendary "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin in Queensland state.
Aug 22, 2017, 15:22 PM IST
