In a trend setting collision of science and social media, Hock Ping Guek photographed a beautiful green lacewing with dark markings at the base of its wings in a park near Kuala Lumpur and shared his photo on Flickr. Dr. Shaun Winterton, an entomologist with the California Department ...
The cloning technique used here is known as ‘therapeutic cloning’, or somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) and is essentially the same technique — with a few important ‘tweaks’ — used to create the first cloned sheep (‘Dolly’). In SCNT cells, a donor cell is fused with an egg (also a ...
A news story about a woman who swam with dolphins and was somehow inspired to visit a doctor who identified a cancer tumor, has speculated a dolphin might have helped. A Panama City Beach, Florida woman went on a dolphin cruise and once in the water with about 15 dolphins something st...
Michael Ricciardi is a well-published writer of science/nature/technology articles and essays, poetry and short fiction. Michael has interviewed dozen of scientists from many scientific fields, including Brain Greene, Paul Steinhardt, and Nobel Laureate Ilya Progogine (deceased). Mich...
University of British Columbia scientist William Cheung has documented a gradual shifting of some fish species further north than their typical ranges. Some tropical commercial species are being found by fishing boats in waters near New England. Ocean water in the tropics is becoming ...
Exploitation of turtle nests has been one of the most significant factors in the species’ global population decline. Almost total collapse of many local nesting populations has occurred throughout most of Southeast Asia. Their flesh is not to the taste of many people though, so they a...
With increasing levels of air pollution comes increasing levels of insulin resistance in children, according to new research. Insulin resistance is the precursor to diabetes. Image Credit: Air Pollution via Flickr CC It has previously been identified that there are strong links “betwe...
A annular solar eclipse, also known as a ring of fire eclipse, will be occurring on Thursday/Friday. The eclipse will enter visibility on Friday morning May 10th local time. The eclipse will be visible to those throughout much of Australia, the Pacific Islands, Papua New Guinea, easte...
A solar eclipse is an event where the Moon passes in between of the Earth and the Sun, and subsequently appears to completely, or partially, block out the bright disc of the Sun from our view. In the case of a total eclipse, almost all of the light is blocked. In an annular — ring of ...
A bit of exposed leg led to a very impressive discovery in the remote Xinjiang region of northwestern China. A new species of Theropod, named Aorun zhaoi , for the Dragon King from the Chinese epic tale of Journey to the West , was discovered by a George Washington University biologis...
The beautiful nearly-symmetrical Cleveland Volcano in Alaska has now awoken again after a short rest, last erupting in 2011. The remote stratovolcano began erupting on Saturday with a series of three large explosions and has since then been releasing a continuous plume of ash, gas, an...
GRB 130427A – Brightest gamma-ray burst ever detected, 3.6 billion light years away in the constellation Leo (image credit: NASA/Swift/Stefan Immler ) At just before 4:00 am EDT on Saturday, April 27, as NASA’s Swift space observatory was switching between galactic targets, a high-ene...
An atom-thin photovoltaic device with high quantum efficiency has been developed by an international team of researchers, researchers from the University of Boston, University of Oxford, and the National University of Singapore. The atom-thin photovoltaic device has a quantum efficien...
A new species of meat-eating dinosaur has been discovered in northwestern China by researchers from George Washington University. The fossil remains of the small theropod dinosaur show that the individual in question was less than a year old when it died. The new species has been name...
Map of New Mexico high-lighting Mora County (image: public domain ) (from grist.org ) Mora County, New Mexico, has become the first county in the nation to ban natural gas ‘fracking’ and oil drilling. Mora County –currently suffering from a severe drought — is located near Santa Fe an...
The Eta Aquarid meteor shower will be reaching its peak this weekend, during the very early morning hours of Sunday, May 5, 2013. The meteor shower will put on a beautiful show for those watching for a few days before and after though, so get out when you can. While the Eta Aquariids ...
On April 19, a truck delivering waste from a fracking operation in Greene County, Pennsylvania, was quarantined after being rejected by a hazardous waste landfill as too dangerous . Image Credit: Radioactive waste via Shutterstock The truck was carrying highly radioactive radium-226 i...
The enormous partially fossilized egg of an elephant bird just sold for the very large sum of $101,813 dollars at Christie’s auction house. It’s kind of funny when you consider that the elephant bird went extinct almost entirely as a result of deforestation/human activities, and that ...
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Michael Ricciardi is a well-published writer of science/nature/technology articles and essays, poetry and short fiction. Michael has interviewed dozen of scientists from many scientific fields, including Brain Greene, Paul Steinhardt, and Nobel Laureate Ilya Progogine (deceased). Mich...
One of the most unique large-scale international climate change projects is underway in Africa. A 4,000 mile “wall of trees” is being constructed across the east-west axis of the continent as a defense against rapid, expanding desertification of the Sahara. 11 nations — Mauritania, Se...
“Vestas is strongly committed to the Australian market and very pleased to have such good working relations with our key customers here,” says Vestas CEO Ditlev Engel. “Australia is now enjoying the benefits of large-scale clean energy investment and jobs, thanks to its Renewable Ener...
Mantis shrimp are marine crustaceans that grow up to about a foot long, though sometimes noticeably larger. Many of the species are very brightly colored, in particular, the Peacock Mantis Shrimp Odontodactylus scyllarus stands out. Some of the species are more “dully” colored though,...
The Arctic Ocean may be free of summer sea-ice as soon as sometime this decade, according to a new report from NOAA. As the report notes, it isn’t a question of if the Arctic will have ice-free summers, it’s simply when. And as of right now, NOAA’s projections say that it is very poss...
Michael Ricciardi is a well-published writer of science/nature/technology articles and essays, poetry and short fiction. Michael has interviewed dozen of scientists from many scientific fields, including Brain Greene, Paul Steinhardt, and Nobel Laureate Ilya Progogine (deceased). Mich...
The annual Lyrids meteor shower is nearly here, beginning roughly around April 16th and visible until around April 26th. The peak will be occurring on April 22, 2013 (night of the 22nd/morning of the 23rd). The Lyrids, which appear to originate in the portion of the sky that features ...
The proposed mission may be the perfect scientific and budgetary compromise. In a 2012 speech, Obama called for a mission to send astronauts to an asteroid by 2025, following cancellation of plans for a more pricey moon landing mission (in preparation for building a Moon base). Meanwh...
“A meteor shower is the result of an interaction between a planet, such as Earth, and streams of debris from a comet. Comets can produce debris by water vapor drag, as demonstrated by Fred Whipple in 1951, and by breakup. Whipple envisioned comets as ‘dirty snowballs,’ made up of rock...
The first account was 50 barrels. Then a report increased it to 700 barrels. What will be next? After watching the videos and photos of the poor birds covered in toxic oil due to the current Mayflower spill, one has little confidence of all of this so-called containment. It is astonis...
continues: “The spider’s unique leg markings include geometric patterns with daffodil-yellow and grey inlays on the first and fourth legs. It was first seen during a Sri Lankan arachnid survey led by Ranil Nanayakkara, co-founder of Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity Education and Research. In ...
Many modern people live lives that are already crammed full of obligations and hobbies, and may not have the time to get the amount of exercise necessary for good health. But very often they do have the time available to make the simple switch over from driving to bicycling. And as th...
