News/Technology & Science

New <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/NO2?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#NO2</a> map available for <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Italy?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Italy</a>- based on data from <a href=”https://twitter.com/CopernicusEU?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@CopernicusEU</a> <a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/Sentinel5P?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>#Sentinel5P</a> and processed by <a href=”https://twitter.com/KNMI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@KNMI</a>/<a href=”https://twitter.com/esa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw”>@esa</a>.<br>🛰️images show nitrogen dioxide concentrations from 14 to 25 March 2020, compared to the monthly average of concentrations from 2019. <br>Read more: <a href=”https://t.co/0gXGSaJAed”>https://t.co/0gXGSaJAed</a> <a href=”https://t.co/UCV6RN0C0U”>pic.twitter.com/UCV6RN0C0U</a> &mdash;@ESA_EO Air pollutionRead More →

A bird-like dinosaur with a beak full of teeth and claws on its wings is the tiniest extinct dinosaur ever found. The dinosaur’s beautifully preserved skull — about as long as your thumbnail from the tip of its beak to the back of its head — was found in a hunk ofRead More →

Scientists have discovered something they didn’t think existed: an animal that can’t breathe oxygen, and obviously doesn’t need to. That animal is a parasite called Henneguya salminocola, distantly related to jellyfish. It lives in the muscles of salmon and trout, causing unsightly little white nodules known as “tapioca disease.”  The parasiteRead More →

In the midst of China’s COVID-19 epidemic, the conditions for an unprecedented climate experiment have emerged. Climate researchers can measure in real time what happens to carbon emissions when one of the world’s largest economies is suddenly stalled, with entire cities locked down, highways emptied, airplanes grounded, factories shuttered and millionsRead More →

One of the largest turtles that ever lived was about the size of a car — and prowled the lakes and rivers of northern South America from about 13 million years ago to 7 million years ago. Scientists said on Wednesday they have unearthed new fossils of the turtle, calledRead More →

Australian wildlife officials say dozens of endangered slugs found only at the top of an extinct volcano have survived the bushfires that ripped through their habitat. About 60 Mount Kaputar slugs, also called Kaputar pink slugs because of their striking colour, were spotted by rangers after a recent rainfall followingRead More →

They travel through space, and they’ve puzzled astronomers since they were first discovered just over decade ago. They’re called fast radio bursts, and thanks to a team of Canadian scientists, a new signal has been precisely located in a nearby galaxy. It’s a major step to figuring out where these enigmasRead More →

The infinite, triangular loop of arrows that we know as the recycling symbol adorns millions of plastic pop and water bottles we carefully sort in the blue bin. It comforts us with the idea that each one will be recycled over and over again forever.  But unfortunately, most of theRead More →

A Chinese scientist who set off an ethical debate with claims that he had made the world’s first genetically edited babies was sentenced Monday to three years in prison because of his research, state media said. He Jiankui, who was convicted of practising medicine without a licence, was also finedRead More →

Can you make an egg stand on its narrow side during a solar eclipse? According to a popular scientific theory, an egg will support itself that way when the moon obscures the sun and during the spring equinox, due to increased gravity. While the theory has been debunked, that didRead More →