Humans generally experience four or five long slow-wave/REM sleep cycles every night. Shockingly, the Australian bearded dragons showed 350 80-second-long cycles, scientists said.
Hitomi was launched in February and was met with widespread support and jubilation. However, a month later, ground control engineers lost all contact with the JAXA satellite.
Oxygen levels in the seas are falling at an alarming rate and widespread evidence of the trend will be evident 2030 onward. Climate change makes oceans turn over less.
Greens have revealed their plans of taxing coal and using proceeds in the conservation of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef after it goes under threat of destruction from coral bleaching.
While the greening of Earth seems like a positive sign for many, Canadell expressed grave concerns as such exponential increase in CO2 levels would mean severe weather and rising sea levels.
Scientists, in a bid to find evidence of supernovae in cosmic rays travelling through space, analysed NASA's Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) spacecraft’s data.
The discovery of the new reef system in the mouth of the Amazon River is capable of providing scientists a broader view of the reef community, its variations and changes.
Professor Joshua Madin said this is the worst case of bleaching ever in Sydney Harbour and the event is an indicator of devastating environmental disasters that are going to hit our planet.
According to the researchers, corals prepare themselves to be more tolerant when bleaching occurs after they are exposed to a pre-stress period, weeks before as the temperatures start rising steadily.
The study’s evidence is currently based on modelling and the fact that the region between Mercury and Sun is completely barren. This is a possible explanation why nothing is seen in Mercury’s orbit.
Scientists have found out Mercury’s orbit to be chaotic, so much so, that gravitational influences from Jupiter may cause it to crash into Venus in the next 5 billion years.
To meet Australia's commitment to the Paris Climate Change Agreement, an economic modelling suggest closing coal-fired power plants and sourcing 90 percent of its electricity from renewable sources.
The Great Barrier Reef may lose out to mining giant Adani as State and Federal governments are favouring the mining giant more than the world heritage site.
A couple from Overton found a lump of whale vomit and took it to their home after wrapping the lump in a scarf. Now, they can win $100,000 dollars for their find.
The researchers produced high-resolution 3D images of the 26 million year old fossil ear using highly-advanced scanning technologies in Melbourne. The results were extraordinary.
According to Mr Matthew Cossey, CEO of CropLife Australia, safety of crop protection product use and human health are the topmost priority of the plant science industry.
Construction workers posed for photos after capturing the Malaysian python. They stretched the python over their shoulders while the noose was still tight on its neck. It died soon afterwards.
As East Antarctica gains around 165 trillion pounds of ice a year, and West Antarctica loses 275 trillion pounds of ice a year, this makes Earth wobble tilt further towards the UK.
Scientists around the globe have raised alarm bells and have called for immediate conservation efforts to protect world’s reefs. Overfishing and pollution to blame.
It is possible that amino acids, ribose and molecules in cell membranes were all made in space and then hurled at Earth in the form of a comet or meteorite to start life.
The WWF has strongly urged governments to stop destructive activities on world heritage sites.
Channel Nine's new program would have us believe a powerful hypnotist can make us do whatever he says and we are powerless to resist or even realise. This is inconsistent with science.
Science Web sites debunk speculations that the moon would appear green for 90 minutes on April 20 or May 29 because of planetary alignment.
In light of the recent coral bleaching events, scientists have also found out that fish are protecting the Great Barrier Reef corals from bleaching, predators and storms.
Apart from its weird greenish eyes, the bizarre sea creature had three gills on each side of its head as opposed to sharks’ five and seven gills on each side.
Homo sapiens appeared around 200,000 years ago in Africa. Later they spread out in other parts of the world where they came across Neanderthals and possibly hobbits from Indonesia.
In 2015, Australian government spent close to $100,000 sending officials to different parts of the world to convince World Heritage Committee members not to place the reef on the “in danger” list.
A mysterious celestial object hit Jupiter, and scientists believe it was a comet or an asteroid. However, the explosion was extremely powerful.
Pictures of Pluto taken from New Horizons have revealed features possibly carved by liquids. The photos also show a possible frozen lake located just north of Sputnik Planum.
About 10 percent of the almost 100,000 stars observed by scientists had magnetic fields which strength was either weaker or similar to that of the Sun’s magnetic field.
