Read More Scince News Nature 2 days ago Bumblebees Read Morse-Like Light Signals to Find Food Researchers trained Bombus terrestris bumblebees to distinguish long and short light flashes — a Morse-like code — and use that timing to locate sugar. The study shows bees can process temporal visual cues and has implications for cognition and robotics.
Read More Scince News Nature 2 days ago Amazon Lakes Reached 41°C, Killing Hundreds of Dolphins During a brutal 2023 drought, Amazon floodplain lakes heated to 41 °C, killing hundreds of dolphins and thousands of fish. Scientists link the mass mortality to ocean warming, El Niño and extreme local conditions.
Read More Scince News Nature 3 days ago How CO2 Fuels Kimberlite Eruptions That Bring Diamonds New modeling shows how CO2 and water in kimberlite magmas determine buoyancy and explosive ascent. The results explain why volatile-rich eruptions deliver most natural diamonds from deep mantle depths.
Read More Scince News Nature 4 days ago Mysterious Blue Volcanic Goo Hides Alkaline Life Clues Researchers recovered startlingly blue serpentinite mud near the Mariana Trench and found intact microbial lipids in extremely alkaline, nutrient-poor conditions. The discovery sheds light on deep biospheres and possible origins-of-life environments.
Read More Scince News Nature 9 days ago Maya Cosmogram: Aguada Fénix, a 3,000-Year-Old Sky Map New excavations and LIDAR mapping at Aguada Fénix reveal a 3,000-year-old Maya cosmogram — a cross-shaped landscape with directional pigments and offerings — challenging assumptions about early monumental labor and social hierarchy.
Read More Scince News Nature 10 days ago Hidden 11-Million-Year Meteor Impact Revealed in Australia Tiny glass beads called ananguites found in South Australia reveal an 11-million-year-old meteor impact. Geochemical fingerprinting and argon dating separate these tektites from the younger Australasian strewnfield.
Read More Scince News Nature Scientific 13 days ago 18th-Century Mechanical Vesuvius Rebuilt After 250 Years An 18th-century mechanical model of Mount Vesuvius, first sketched by Sir William Hamilton in 1775, has been recreated by University of Melbourne engineering students using modern materials, LEDs and microcontrollers. The working model is now exhibited until June 28, 2026.
Read More Scince News Nature 13 days ago Nanotyrannus Confirmed: A Distinct, Deadly Small Tyrant A near-complete Hell Creek skeleton and new analyses suggest Nanotyrannus was a distinct, fully grown tyrannosaur species — not a juvenile T. rex — reshaping debates on Late Cretaceous predator diversity.
Read More Scince News Nature 14 days ago Antarctic Ice Reveals 6-Million-Year-Old Trapped Air Ice cores from Antarctica's Allan Hills have yielded directly dated air trapped about 6 million years ago, offering new isotope and atmospheric data that reveal a warmer late-Miocene Antarctic and improve paleoclimate models.
Read More Scince News Nature 14 days ago Cyanobacteria Tied to Alzheimer-Like Damage in Dolphins New studies link cyanobacterial toxins like BMAA to Alzheimer’s-like brain damage in stranded dolphins, suggesting algal blooms may cause disorientation and long-term neurodegeneration with implications for human health.
Read More Scince News Nature 15 days ago Dimming the Sun Isn't Safe: Limits of Geoengineering Scientists warn that stratospheric aerosol injection—spraying reflective particles to cool Earth—faces major physical, industrial, and governance hurdles that make it risky and impractical today.
Read More Scince News Nature 16 days ago Nature’s Toxic Arms Race: How Animals Beat Poisons From snakes rubbing toxic frogs across the ground to insects that sequester plant poisons, animals use behaviors and molecular defenses to survive and even repurpose deadly compounds. This article explores the evolutionary arms race, mechanisms of resistance, and medical implications.
Read More Scince News Nature Scientific 16 days ago MXenes Could Unlock Cleaner Ammonia and Renewables Now MXenes—tunable two-dimensional carbides and nitrides—show promise as electrocatalysts for cleaner ammonia production. Combining computation and Raman spectroscopy, researchers map atomic mechanisms that could decarbonize fertilizer and fuel.
Read More Scince News Nature 17 days ago Greenland Is Shifting: How Ice Loss Reshapes the Island Scientists using 20 years of GPS data find Greenland is shifting northwest about 2 cm/year as ice melt, plate tectonics, and glacial rebound reshape the island—impacting navigation, mapping, and climate models.
Read More Scince News Nature 17 days ago Two-Headed Flatworms Reveal Body-Axis Reversal Phenomenon Researchers found naturally occurring two-headed flatworms whose descendants can reverse body-axis polarity. The discovery reveals extreme developmental flexibility and raises questions about stem cells and regeneration.
Read More Scince News Nature 18 days ago Ocean's Missing Plastic: How Microplastics Sink Away New research links plastic fragmentation, marine snow and ocean currents to explain why much plastic seems to vanish from the sea surface. Buoyant plastics persist for decades while producing microplastics that slowly sink.
Read More Scince News Nature 18 days ago Unexpected Life Under Arctic Ice Could Shift Climate Models Researchers discovered nitrogen-fixing microbes beneath Arctic sea ice. These non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs could boost algae, reshape food webs and alter carbon uptake, prompting calls to include them in climate models.
Read More Scince News Nature 19 days ago Southern Ocean's Hidden Heat Could Trigger a Global Burp New climate simulations indicate the Southern Ocean may later release stored heat in a sudden 'burp', causing a century-scale return of global warming even after net-negative emissions are reached.
Read More Scince News Nature 21 days ago North Atlantic Right Whale: A Fragile Recovery at Sea The critically endangered North Atlantic right whale shows small population gains in 2024, with eight new calves and an estimated 384 animals. Recovery is fragile due to ship strikes and fishing entanglement; conservation measures remain essential.
Read More Scince News Nature 23 days ago Mosquitoes Reach Iceland: First Wild Record Stirs Alarm Iceland has recorded its first wild mosquitoes—three Culiseta annulata north of Reykjavik. Scientists suspect human transport, not necessarily climate change, and urge monitoring for establishment.
