Scientists have analyzed odd-looking Martian craters, which they think indicates hidden ice.
Surface features common in the northern and southern mid latitudes of Mars and known as lobate debris aprons and lineated valley fill are believed to have formed either as debris flows mobilized by pore ice or as debris-covered glaciers.
To learn more, Ailish [...]
If you think that our facial expressions of emotion are a product of cultural learning, you better think again, for a new study suggests that they are hardwired into our genes.
Published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, this is the first study to suggest that facial expressions of emotion are innate rather than [...]
A radar instrument aboard a NASA spacecraft has detected large glaciers hidden under rocky debris that may be the vestiges of ice sheets that blanketed parts of Mars in a past ice age, scientists said on Thursday.
The glaciers, the biggest known deposits of water on Mars outside of its poles, could prove useful for future [...]
A storm was expected to dump snow, sleet and rain on the Rockies and parts of the Plains and the Midwest on Friday, while cloudy conditions were forecast for much of the East Coast and the West Coast was likely to be mostly dry and clear.
Snow was forecast for the Rockies and most of the [...]
When it came to the sense of smell among meat-eating dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex nosed out the competition.
Scientists at the University of Calgary and the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, Canada, compared the size of their olfactory bulbs — the part of the brain regulating the sense of smell — in a wide range of carnivorous [...]
Hurricane Paloma — currently lashing the Cayman islands — has strengthened to a Category Four storm with winds of up to 215 kilometers (135 miles) per hour, the National Hurricane Center said on Saturday.
“Paloma is now an extremely dangerous Category Four hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale,” the center said in a special advisory.
A researcher from Iowa State University, US, has said that turtles nesting along the Mississippi River and other areas are altering their nesting dates in response to rising temperatures.
The researcher, who led the study, is Fred Janzen, a professor in ecology, evolution and organismal biology.
Janzen and his collaborators studied mud turtles, sliders, snapping turtles and [...]
Routine activities like wearing swim goggles, sleeping face down or doing a gym workout may contribute to glaucoma that damages the optic nerve and leads to blindness, according to a new study.
‘The fluid pressure inside the eye increases - or spikes - during many everyday activities,’ said Charles McMonnies, a professor at the University of [...]
Archaeologists in China have discovered fossils of a pigeon-sized feathered dinosaur which they believe to be an ancestor of birds.
Its remains were found 90 percent complete, preserved in a slab of rock in Inner Mongolia’s Ningcheng county in northern China, the researchers wrote in an article in Nature.
Its four limbs lacked contour feathers for flight [...]
India’s Chandrayaan-1 has begun its journey to the Moon -eagerly to find water on its surface - but there is a disappointing news from the Japanese lunar explorer Selene that has been circling the Moon for about a year.
Scientists, who are operating Selene, say that new images taken by a stereo camera onboard the spacecraft [...]