The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the interior least tern, a small bird that nests along major rivers in the midwestern and southern United States, has fully recovered and can be removed from the endangered species list.
Endangered Species Act protections have helped interior least tern numbers...
The government agency claims these are all of its documents on the subject, with reports dating back to the 1980s
We’re only two weeks into 2021, and this is my second article about the CIA. Following its minimal techno rebrand, the government has now released hundreds of documents about UFOs,...
New study led by the University of South Florida has uncovered one of the reasons jellyfish have come to be known as the "world's most efficient swimmer." Brad Gemmell, associate professor of integrative biology, found jellyfish produce two vortex rings, which are donut-shaped bodies of fluid underneath their translucent...
Researchers have peered out into the vast expanse and discovered what they believe is the oldest, most distant galaxy till date.
We’ve all asked ourselves the big questions at times: “How big is the universe?” or “How and when did galaxies form?” Astronomers take these questions very seriously, and use...
University of Liverpool archaeologists carrying out an Iron Age experiment in Wales have instead uncovered the ‘Plastic Age’ – the plastic dominated archaeology left behind by modern society.
The researchers were investigating the remains of reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses built on the original sites at Castell Henllys Iron Age fort.
These...
Inspired by the color-changing skin of cuttlefish, octopuses and squids, Rutgers engineers have created a 3D-printed smart gel that changes shape when exposed to light, becomes "artificial muscle" and may lead to new military camouflage, soft robotics and flexible displays.
The engineers also developed a 3D-printed stretchy material that can...
At the end of last year, astronauts on board the International Space Station achieved something impressive — they grew radishes in the microgravity environment of space for the first time. Now, they get to enjoy the fruits of their labors, as they were allowed to eat some of the...
Harvard professor and theoretical physicist Avi Loeb claims that an alien species visited earth in 2017.
He spoke to the New York Post about his upcoming book Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth. In that tome, the professor says that the weird rock was only the first...
