Researchers say the discovery of the oldest known recordings of whale sounds could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate. The recording captured the song of a humpback whale, a marine giant beloved by whale watchers for its docile nature and spectacular leaps from the water. Researchers at Woods Hole Oceanographic…
Revolution Wind and Vineyard Wind are two of several wind farm projects that have come under fire from the Trump administration in recent months An operational wind turbine at the South Fork Wind Farm off Long Island on December 7, 2023. Two offshore wind farms that were targeted by the Trump administration are making strides…
Australia could reduce its reliance on foreign fuel by more than 1bn litres a year if we replaced 1m petrol-fuelled cars with electric vehicles, as experts say boosting EV adoption is part of securing the nation’s long-term economic security. Hussein Dia, a professor of transport technology and sustainability at the Swinburne University of Technology, said…
A haunting whale song discovered on decades-old audio equipment could open up a new understanding of how the huge animals communicate, according to researchers who say it is the oldest such recording known. The song is that of a humpback whale, a marine giant beloved by whale watchers for its docile nature and spectacular leaps…
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 16 (Reuters) – Astronomers have spotted a planet orbiting a star in our neighborhood of the Milky Way galaxy that presents a unique hellscape – covered with a perpetual ocean of magma and enveloped by a noxious and fiercely hot sulfur-rich atmosphere. The molten planet’s diameter is more than 60%…
It’s well known that spaceflight causes muscle atrophy and other biological changes in reduced gravity, and especially in near-zero gravity (microgravity) environments. However, the gravity threshold needed to maintain sufficient muscle health in space is still unclear. Source: Read Full Article
An artist’s impression of how Visigoth warriors may have looked in the 5th century The Creative Assembly (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) The Goths were a multi-ethnic society, according to a study of DNA from Gothic graves. The people buried there had ancestry from places as far afield as Scandinavia, modern-day Turkey and North Africa. The findings…
The team found that even a small number of interacting males can synchronize their flashes, but the periodic bursts only happen in groups larger than 15. And the flashes are correlated over several meters, evidence of long-range interactions typical of emergent collective behavior. But Peleg et al. also noted some individual trajectories, suggesting that there…
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Today’s top story Hexagonal diamonds could open up a wealth of new applications. (Image credit: FlashMovie via Getty Images) Researchers in China claim to have synthesized the very first samples of “hexagonal diamond“ — a mysterious and coveted material believed to be harder, stiffer and chemically tougher than natural diamond. Scientists have been arguing about…
