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Weekender: A Holiday Gift for Animal Lovers

December 27, 2014
In a landmark ruling in favor of the rights of ‘non-human persons,’ a court in Buenos Aires just recognized Sandra – a 29-year old Sumatran orangutan – to be sufficiently sentient as to deserve her freedom from zoo captivity. She... continued

Your Fears May Not Be Your Own

December 24, 2014
It seems that it’s not just physical traits that are inheritable. Now scientists are finding evidence that learned behaviors and even phobias can be passed down through the generations via chemical changes in the DNA. Research conducted with mice –... continued

Scientists Tracking Tiny Songbirds Make Surprising Discovery

December 23, 2014
In May of 2013, in the Cumberland Mountains of North Eastern Tennessee, Dr. Henry Streby from UC Berkeley and his colleagues from the Universities of Tennessee and Minnesota captured and equipped 20 tiny golden warblers with geo-locators to see if... continued

Weekender: Can Plants Think And Feel?

December 20, 2014
Plants are generally considered to be more basic forms of life than animals. They cannot speak, or walk; they do not have powers of reasoning or conscious thought. Or do they? Scientists are now coming around to the idea that... continued

Are Our Oceans Hiding Mysterious Sea Monsters?

December 19, 2014
Ancient legends of sea monsters attacking ships abound, but to date these tales remain fixed firmly in the realms of fantasy. Yet do the depths of our oceans still hide these mythical creatures, or is our changing climate allowing new... continued

Have NASA scientists finally found evidence of life on Mars?

December 18, 2014
Mars has been hitting the headlines lately as scientists reveal more and more about the Red Planet's past. But could this latest piece of evidence really be it? Have scientists really found solid proof of life on Mars? Strange methane... continued

Mysterious Sleeping Sickness Affects Russian Village

December 17, 2014
An inexplicable sleeping sickness is affecting one in ten residents of a village in Kazakhstan in Russia. Villagers in Kalachi have been affected by the mysterious disease for the past two years, but to date, no cause for the illness... continued

Unidentified Signal From Space Could Reveal Dark Matter

December 15, 2014
Despite the fact that it is believed to make up around eighty per cent of the matter in the universe, so-called "dark matter" remains an enigma to scientists. It is totally invisible as it neither absorbs or emits light, and... continued

Weekender: Mars Life is Probable Say Scientists

December 13, 2014
In 1976, the Viking program's orbiter and lander reached Mars, and the lander's life experiments returned data that the scientists who had designed them had expected to see if living organisms were present in the soil. However, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,... continued

Warmer Oceans Could Release Millions of Tons of Undersea Methane

December 11, 2014
Off the West Coast of the United States, methane gas is trapped in frozen layers below the seafloor. New research from the University of Washington shows that water at intermediate depths is warming enough to cause these carbon deposits to... continued