Category Archives: Science news
| First dinosaur bones found in Denali National Park
Paleontologists from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the National Park Service found the first dinosaur bones in Denali National Park during an expedition in July. They also discovered several new dinosaur trackways, which are fossilized impressions left by ancient animals walking through mud that eventually became rock.
State of the art maritime archaeology expedition conducted in Black Sea
An expedition mapping submerged ancient landscapes, the first of its kind in the Black Sea, is making exciting discoveries.
From muscles to motors: 2016 chemistry Nobel goes to creators of the world’s tiniest machines
The 2016 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to three individuals for designing and developing molecular machines. Jean-Pierre Sauvage of France’s University of Strasbourg, J Fraser Stoddart of Northwestern University in the US and Bernard L Feringa from the University of Groningen in the the Netherlands will share a sum of $928,000.
Welcome to the age of the Anthropocene
Is the “Anthropocene” an exercise in geological bureaucracy or something sociologically more significant? PROFESSOR TIM NAISH explains.
Pressure is mounting on the guardians of the Geological Time Scale, the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), to formally recognise a new epoch in Earth’s history.
Astronomers observe star reborn in a flash
An international team of astronomers using Hubble have been able to study stellar evolution in real time. Over a period of 30 years dramatic increases in the temperature of the star SAO 244567 have been observed. Now the star is cooling again, having been reborn into an earlier phase of stellar evolution. This makes it the first reborn star to have been observed during both the heating and cooling stages of rebirth.
