June 1, 2021 —In a new study, researchers demonstrate that sick bats, just like ill humans, prefer to stay away from their communities, probably as a means for recovery, and possibly also as a measure for ...
May 5, 2021 —Mammals see with their eyes, hear with their ears and smell with their nose. But which sense or organ allows them to orient themselves on their migrations, which sometimes go far beyond their local ...
Apr. 30, 2021 —Expanding the study of prehistoric permafrost thawing to North America, researchers found evidence in mineral deposits from caves in Canada that permafrost thawing took place as recently as 400,000 ...
Apr. 1, 2021 —A new study finds that the risk is low that scientists could pass coronavirus to North American bats during winter ...
Mar. 24, 2021 —An international team of scientists presents an analysis of sediments from a cave in northeast Greenland, that cover a time period between about 588,000 to 549,000 years ago. This interval was warmer ...
Mar. 23, 2021 —Geologists unexpectedly found mineral deposits in former ice caves in the Austrian Alps dating back to the peak of the last ice age. These special calcite crystals demonstrate that intensive snowfall ...
Mar. 1, 2021 —Scientists have discovered a previously unknown breeding site used by the world's rarest seal ...
Mar. 1, 2021 —的“金属低语,”工程师developed technology capable of recovering pure and precious metals from the alloys in our old phones and other electrical waste. All it ...
Feb. 10, 2021 —Almost 80 years after its discovery, a large shell from the ornate Marsoulas Cave in the Pyrenees has been studied by a multidisciplinary team: it is believed to be the oldest wind instrument of its ...
Jan. 19, 2021 —A four-year study concludes that the fungal disease, white-nose syndrome, poses a severe threat to many western North American ...
Nov. 16, 2020 —Recent cave exploration has turned up a tiny, top-heavy snail that glistens under the light of the microscope lens. Only 1.80 mm tall, this transparent snail bulges at the middle, giving a natural ...
Oct. 30, 2020 —Mega-droughts - droughts that last two decades or longer - are tipped to increase thanks to climate change, according to new ...
Oct. 29, 2020 —When startled, do all fish respond the same way? A few fish, like Mexican cavefish, have evolved in unique environments without any predators. To see how this lack of predation impacts escape ...
Sep. 8, 2020 —An international team of scientists has identified at least 11 species of fish suspected to have land-walking ...
Aug. 20, 2020 —Using Greenland ice cores, new research is the first to confirm the longstanding assumption that climate changes between the tropics and the Arctic were synchronized during the last glacial ...
Aug. 5, 2020 —Subsurface cavities created by lava on Mars and the Moon could provide a shield against cosmic radiation, new research ...
July 28, 2020 —Volcanologists working on remote islands in the Galápagos Archipelago has found that volcanoes which reliably produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse magmas in their ...
July 22, 2020 —Ancient climate records from Leviathan Cave, located in the southern Great Basin, show that Nevada was even hotter and drier in the past than it is today, and that one 4,000-year period in particular ...
July 22, 2020 —A cave in a remote part of Mexico was visited by humans around 30,000 years ago - 15,000 years earlier than people were previously thought to have reached the Americas. Excavations of Chiquihuite ...
July 20, 2020 —According to paleoclimatic reconstructions analyzing stalagmites sampled in some caves in the Murge plateau (Apulia, Italy), Neanderthals might have become extinct because Homo sapiens employed more ...