An ultraporous compound can extract water molecules from dry desert air, store them as tiny “icicles” and then release them as clean drinking water. A new study has shown this novel humidity sponge’s developers how it works in detail, taking it a step closer to practical applications. Along with government, […]
Month: November 2021
Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts Are Finally Coming into Focus
Nobody noticed when an Australian radio telescope captured a fleeting explosion of light coming from somewhere far beyond the Milky Way in 2001. Records of the powerful flare-up—which produced as much energy in a few thousandths of a second as the sun does in a day—sat unseen for more than […]
Weird Tracks in Texas Indicate Giant Sauropods Walking on Their Front Feet Only
They were the largest animals to ever walk the Earth: sauropods, a dinosaur clade of such immense size and stature, they’re sometimes dubbed ‘thunder lizards’. These towering hulks – including Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Diplodocus among others – needed four thick, powerful legs to support and transport their massive bodies. At […]
Life Is Complicated–Literally, Astrobiologists Say
The hunt for extraterrestrial life has always been bedeviled by false positives—those occasions where scientists think they’ve found life but turn out to lack a wholly convincing case. The archetypal example comes from NASA’s twin Viking landers, which delivered controversial evidence of life on Mars in the mid-1970s. That evidence […]
Albatross ‘Divorce’ Rate Rises as the Ocean Warms
Few animals seem more affectionate than black-browed albatross. These large seabirds, whose dark eyebrows shadow their eyes like mascara, are socially monogamous and often mate for life. Their romantic-seeming “marriages” have a practical purpose: staying with the same partner builds trust, which is essential as the pair alternates between lengthy […]
Physical Activity Could Be an Evolutionary Adaptation for Grandparenting
Lifelong physical activity can help our span of good health run almost the length of a lifetime. In this way, remaining active later in life promotes humans’ wherewithal to support the survival of their grandchildren—and their genetic lineage into future generations—say the authors of an essay published this week in […]
Lost Women of Science, Episode 4: Breakfast in the Snow
From the COVID vaccine to pulsars to computer programming, women are at the source of many scientific discoveries, inventions and innovations that shape our lives. But in the stories we’ve come to accept about those breakthroughs, women are too often left out. Each season at Lost Women of Science, we’ll […]
Australian Zoo Adopts a ‘Megaspider’ So Big Its Fangs Can Pierce Human Fingernails
In spite of what most Australians would have you believe, the land Down Under isn’t a hot-bed of venomous arachnids. But every now and then, a spider emerges that gives even the most stoic of us a dose of arachnophobia. Take this stunning example of a female funnel-web spider […]
Living walls can reduce heat lost from buildings by over 30% — ScienceDaily
Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, according to new research. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, centred around the Sustainability Hub — a pre-1970s building on the […]
A STANDARD GUIDE TO THE AVERAGE LIVING COST OF EXCHANGE STUDENTS IN CANADA
Canada is a country with ablaze educational institutions and many exchange students head towards Canada to study in the glorious institutes each year. You may wonder how much it will cost to live there and study simultaneously. Well, calculating your expenses before going there is the plan you should follow […]
Record-Breaking Exoplanet With Insanely Extreme Orbit Is Totally Doomed
A recently uncovered exoplanet is a person of the most severe found out nevertheless. Its title is TOI-2109b, an absolute beast of a fuel big clocking it at 1.35 moments the measurement and 5 times the mass of Jupiter. Oh, and it has a dying would like: It really is […]