Read More Scince News Nature Scientific 27 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 28 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 28 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 28 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 30 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 30 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 30 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 a month 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 a month 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 a month 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 a month 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 a month 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 a month 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 a month 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.
Read More Scince News Nature Scientific a month ago Glowing Sugars Reveal How Ocean Microbes Store Carbon A novel fluorescent glycan probe lights up when marine sugars are digested, revealing which microbes consume complex polysaccharides and how that controls carbon storage and export in the ocean.
Read More Scince News Nature a month ago Antarctica Nears Tipping Points: Collapse, Sea Rise Loom New research warns Antarctica is approaching interconnected tipping points that could trigger irreversible ice loss, ocean circulation collapse and major sea-level rise unless emissions fall rapidly.
Read More Scince News Nature a month ago Sea Levels Rising Faster Than in 4,000 Years: Risks A Rutgers-led study shows global sea levels are rising faster than at any time in 4,000 years. Thermal expansion, melting ice and land subsidence put delta megacities at acute risk.
Read More Scince News Nature a month ago 2024 Carbon Spike: Greenhouse Gases Reach Record Highs WMO data shows atmospheric CO2, methane, and nitrous oxide reached record levels in 2024. This article explains the drivers, risks, and mitigation options to slow accelerating global warming.
Read More Scince News Nature a month ago Ancient Enigma: Salterella and the Birth of Skeletons Salterella, a peculiar 540-million-year-old fossil, combines a conical shell with an inner mineral lining. New analyses suggest selective mineral packing and a likely link to cnidarians, reshaping ideas about early skeleton evolution.
Read More Scince News Nature a month ago Wild Honeybees Now Endangered in the European Union Wild Apis mellifera populations have been classified as endangered within the EU after coordinated research distinguished free-living colonies from managed hives, highlighting habitat loss, disease and hybridisation as key threats.
