Life
GBR | Oct 5, 2022
Reading Time: 3 minutes WASHINGTON (Reuters) Pterosaurs, the flying reptiles that thrived during the age of dinosaurs, achieved great size – some with wingspans like a fighter jet – and displayed striking anatomy including…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The James Webb Space Telescope helps us see the universe in a new light. A beautiful spiral galaxy located 29 million light years from Earth has taken on a new…
Reading Time: 3 minutes SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said a robot business will be worth more than its cars, and on Friday (September 30) investors, customers and potential workers expect…
Reading Time: 4 minutes (Reuters) Scientists in Australia have unearthed beautifully preserved fossilized hearts and other internal organs of ancient armoured fish in a discovery that provides insight into the evolution of the bodies…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sea monsters were real – and filled an evolutionary niche similar to that of killer whales. Scientists have discovered the fossils of a huge new mosasaur – a giant sea-dwelling…
Reading Time: 2 minutes BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) Palaeontologists on Thursday (August 11) heralded the discovery of a previously unknown small armoured dinosaur in southern Argentina, a creature that likely walked upright on its back…
Reading Time: 3 minutes WASHINGTON (Reuters) T. rex still reigns as the king of dinosaurs, according to scientists who today (July 25) argued against a contentious hypothesis advanced this year that the mighty meat-eater…
Reading Time: 4 minutes WASHINGTON (Reuters) The evolution of penguins from their flying seabird ancestors into the flightless denizens of marine environments from frigid Antarctica to the tropical Galapagos Islands is among the wonders…
Reading Time: 5 minutes GREENBELT, Md. (Reuters) Following a presidential sneak peek of a galaxy-studded image from deep in the cosmos, NASA officials gathered on Tuesday (July 12) to unveil more of their initial…
Reading Time: 2 minutes BEIJING (Reuters) Robot fish that “eat” microplastics may one day help to clean up the world’s polluted oceans, says a team of Chinese scientists from Sichuan University in southwest China….
Reading Time: 4 minutes Durrant Pate/Contributor As the world grapples with the burden of the dreaded cancer disease, the news of a medical trial having miraculously removed tumours from a few patients, who took…
Reading Time: 5 minutes High commendation has been bestowed on The University of the West Indies (The UWI) from the world’s leading global volcanological association. The regional University’s Seismic Research Centre (UWI SRC), located…