Scientists showed that shipping, sonar, offshore exploration and construction interfere with whale songs and other acoustic communications necessary during their migration, Movement Ecology published.
After two decades of work, scientists and engineers at the US Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory announced the completion of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy.
Cuban scientists are working on preserving the fossil of a giant saurian found a few months ago in a cave in the Viñales Valley, one of the most important discoveries in the country's Paleontology.
Imagine that you go to a friend's house for the first time and, upon entering, you feel that you have already been there, that you know the place even as if you knew where everything is. However, you know perfectly well that you have never been before.
To commemorate the 215th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, researchers involved in the Darwin Online project have published a 300-page catalogue, containing the 7,350 titles and 13,000 volumes that made up the British scientist's library.
An international group of researchers identified the presence of ancient lake sediments deposited by water at the base of the Jezero crater floor, located on the western edge of the Isidis Planitia plain, north of the equator of Mars, the University of California reported this Friday. in Los Angeles, United States.
Animals become most active between dusk and dawn to escape human disturbance, a study from the University of Minnesota School of Biological Sciences found.
"What is happiness?" is a question whose answer depends on the subject being asked. Freud, for example, believed that this state of mind is "the result of satisfying accumulated needs that have reached a high level of tension," while, much earlier, Aristotle considered that it was entirely possible to achieve it by combining the external goods of the body and of the soul.
Ambient temperature has a significant influence on the loudness of speech, according to a group of scientists from Germany and China in an article published in the December issue of the journal PNAS Nexus.
Imagination, that faculty that allows us to create worlds in our minds, is not exclusive to human beings. Recent studies suggest that animals can also harbor forms of imagination and that they have the ability to mentally navigate and subjectively experience virtual worlds that open the doors to new forms of learning in a similar way to humans.
A scientific team led by researchers from the University of Oxford filmed a live specimen of an egg-laying mammal, considered extinct 60 years ago, in the Cyclops Mountains of Indonesia.
Throughout the time of our planet's existence, a large number of changes have occurred that, together, have transformed the appearance of the Earth multiple times. Scientists know this well, but the ability to be surprised by discoveries along these lines has not diminished.