Extinct giant burrowing bat fossil found in New Zealand
The teeth and bones of the animal, which lived 16 to 19 million years ago, were discovered near St Bathans in Central Otago where the scientists have been working for the past 16 years.
Jan 11, 2018, 14:25 PM IST
New York City sues oil companies over climate change
The city alleges the fossil fuel industry was aware for decades that burning fuel was impacting climate change.
Jan 11, 2018, 12:44 PM IST
US man sets apartment on fire in an attempt to kill spider
The blaze forced the residents to evacuate and firefighters were immediately called to the building.
Jan 10, 2018, 11:06 AM IST
The modern ocean's average temperature is 3.5 degree Celsius: Study
Each layer of water can have drastically different temperatures, so determining the average over the entirety of the ocean's surface and depths presents a challenge.
Jan 04, 2018, 17:48 PM IST
This wearable sensor for plants efficiency measures water
The plant sensors have been successfully tested in lab and pilot field experiments.
Jan 04, 2018, 16:38 PM IST
New plant species discovered in China
Currently, there are fewer than 50 individual plants of the new species in three localities in Yunnan.
Jan 03, 2018, 16:07 PM IST
Global warming targeting 2 degree Celsius may make the world drier: Scientists
Researchers from University of East Anglia (UEA) in the UK and Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in China studied projections from 27 global climate models.
Jan 02, 2018, 13:03 PM IST
Ancient jumping genes may give corals new lease of life
The team conducted analyses to find out which genes were turned on or off when Symbiodinium was exposed to heat stress.
Jan 01, 2018, 14:15 PM IST
NASA reveals images of newly created iceberg fragmenting into new pieces
The ice in the Arctic and Antarctic regions has long since been under scientists' radar and has been losing ice at a rapid pace.
Dec 31, 2017, 17:04 PM IST
China's ban on waste import a global warning: Greenpeace
For Greenpeace, this prohibition will send warnings around the world and will promote the search for methods to generate less waste and to treat them adequately in the country of origin just as within China.
Scientists discover new species of blind fish inside dark Meghalaya cave
The fish sample was collected from small stagnant pools, a few square meters in area and about 1-2 m in depth, about 1,600 feet from the main entrance of the cave.
Dec 28, 2017, 13:14 PM IST
Nepal rejects India’s offer to jointly re-measure Mt Everest after 2015 quake
The Survey of India proposed re-measuring Mt Everest as an ‘Indo-Nepal Joint Scientific Exercise’ with Nepal’s survey department
Dec 27, 2017, 18:09 PM IST
Smoke rings spotted in Tasman sea from space
The rings were spotted by analysing sea level measurements taken from satellites together with sea surface temperature images from the same time and place.
Dec 27, 2017, 16:07 PM IST
Dubai joins global initiative to protect world's oceans
The patron of the Coalition is Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel Laureate and former President of Timor-Leste.
First hybrid bird species, unseen for 45 years, discovered in Amazon rainforest
When two parental species mate to produce a hybrid population, which then stops being able to freely interbreed with the parental species, a hybrid species is formed.
Dec 26, 2017, 16:37 PM IST
Scientists name new spider species after Bob Marley
In 2009, the sea along the coastline of Queensland in Australia receded to such an extent that it exposed a population of spiders.
Dec 25, 2017, 17:48 PM IST
Scientists unearth remains of oldest creature ever found in the Antarctic
The 150 million-year-old giant prehistoric sea reptile is believed to be the first of its species located in Antarctica and the oldest creature ever found on the continent.
Dec 25, 2017, 15:12 PM IST
The first photosynthesis happened 1.25 billion years ago, reveals study
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that can later be released to fuel the organisms' activities.
Dec 25, 2017, 09:50 AM IST
Wet winter leads to more small wildfires, not less: NASA
Large fires behave more "logically," with fewer large fires after a wet winter and more after a dry one.
Footprints of pandas can reveal their identities, gender
A study says that footprints left by giant pandas in the wild can help conservationists identify the individual panda that made them and determine its gender as well.
Dec 22, 2017, 19:13 PM IST
