WEIRD NATURE
Using squid skin as a model, the UC Irvine team have developed a composite material that regulates heat. Depositphotos – By David Szondy 2022 Mar 29 – A team of engineers led by Alon Gorodetsky at the University of California, Irvine, has come up …
Typical amounts of solar particles hitting the earth’s magnetosphere can be beautiful, but too much could be catastrophic. Svein-Magne Tunli – tunliweb.no/Wikimedia, CC BY-NC-SA – By David Wallace, Assistant Clinical Professor of Electrical Engineering, Mississippi State University Published: 2022 Mar 18 – On …
An autonomous underwater vehicle is recovered after completing a seafloor mapping mission in the Arctic Ocean. The remotely operated vehicle (foreground) is used to conduct visual surveys of the newly mapped seafloor. – By Katie Hunt, CNN Updated 2022 Mar 14 – Sign …
Biosphere is being created for the Treehotel project in Sweden, which showcases several hotel rooms by some of Scandinavia’s most respected architects. BIG – By Adam Williams 2022 Mar 15 – The Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has produced more than its fair share of …
The male rose-veiled fairy wrasse showcases a stunning variety of colors as an adult. © Yi-Kai Tea – By Ashley Strickland, CNN Published 2022 Mar 10 – Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, …
Researchers HAVE found ants are as accurate as dogs in sniffing out cancer but they can be trained in as little as 30 minutes. Depositphotos – By Rich Haridy 2022 Mar 10 – A fascinating new proof-of-concept study from a team of researchers in …
Even previously unaffected countries likely to see uncontrollable blazes, says study, which calls for shift to spending on prevention. Wildfires in California. A new report warns that extreme fires that ravaged the US, Australia and Siberia will become more common by the middle …
The Greenland ice sheet is melting from the bottom up, scientists say, which could have a significant impact on global sea level rise. Poul Christoffersen – By Isabelle Jani-Friend, CNN Published 2022 Feb 22 – CNN — The ice sheet covering Greenland is …
Scientists plan a vast global store of aquatic noises to help monitor marine life, identify species – and even uncover regional dialects. The singing ocellaris clownfish shelters among the venomous tentacles of an anemone. Photograph: Hans Gert Broeder/Alamy – The Age of Extinction …
The US Department of Agriculture has been called in to trap and relocate the feisty fowl before they begin nesting. Wild turkeys have been causing trouble at NASA’s Ames Center in Mountain View, California, pecking at cars, blocking traffic and leaving droppings everywhere. …
