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Mystery solved: The origins of flying dinosaurs

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Fossils of pterosaurs, the earliest reptiles to evolve powered flight, were unearthed in the 19th Century but their evolution has remained a mystery. They were around for more than 150 million years until the end of the Mesozoic Era, about 66 million years ago. Recently, scientists using new fossils and an imaging tool called x-ray microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) have unraveled their development. The solution of the mystery not only revealed a sister species of pterosaurs which share a...

Two billion euro program for innovation in Bavaria

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Bavaria's Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) has presented a two-billion-euro program to expand research and innovation in Bavaria in his government statement. A network on artificial intelligence, the refurbishment of several universities, more quantum technology, the recruitment of top international scientists, more research on alternative drives and more universities of excellence - all these are goals Söder mentioned in his government statement today, October 10th 2019. Söder explained...

Radiation fraud must be exposed

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Many people think that science is somehow immune to frauds and misrepresentations. Application of the "scientific method" supposedly weeds out the bad apples. Yet, just as in every other human endeavor, there are always scientists who will lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead. A few even received Nobel Prizes before they were found out. One of these deceptions has yet to be effectively unveiled. The cost to medicine, human health, and energy is huge. That is the unsupportable concept that even...

Climate Change and Mathematical Modelling Illusions

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

For the past three decades, human-caused global warming alarmists have tried to frighten the public with stories of doom and gloom. They tell us that the end of the world as we know it is nigh as a result of carbon dioxide emitted into the air by the burning of fossil fuels. They are exercising precisely what journalist H. L. Mencken, the sage of Baltimore, described early in the past century: "the whole point of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be lead...

Antibiotic shows antiviral potential

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Researchers at Yale have discovered that a type of antibiotic surprisingly displays antiviral properties in mice.

Antibiotics are known to attack and kill bacteria. However, scientists were recently intrigued to observe that a class of antibiotics showed protection for viruses in a study carried out on mice. 

The researchers focussed on one antibiotic called neomycin, which is used to treat bacterial infections. The study showed that neomycin had antiviral properties, which protected the mice...

Do Animals Have Supernatural powers?

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Credit: Wikipedia, Kallerna, Creative Commons In my book titled : "Exact Lies of Social Engineering - The Silent Noises of the Poor", I analyse the mathematical aspects of balancing imagination and logic in the digestive system of the real world, as a way of looking at the ideas of tomorrow! But in the earliest time when both people and animals lived on the earth, a person could appear to become animal if he wanted to and an animal could become a human being. Nature was natural and was...

A green way of coloring denims blue

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

A new research study led by the University of California, Berkeley engineering Professor John Dueber has shown that indigo dye, widely used in denim to give its trademark color can be produced using "green" technology.

The current chemical process for dyeing jeans is "environmentally hazardous, not only from the chemicals required for indigo synthesis but also in the excess of a chemical to dissolve indigo to enable dyeing," says Dueber.

Indigo dyeing is an ancient technique widely used nowadays...

Future smart devices might provide you with a feel for virtual textures and shapes

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Imagine you are browsing the just-released iPhone that you would like to purchase on your tablet. Normally, what would that entail? A trip to the nearest store. However, what if your tablet allows you to virtually feel the texture and shape of that coveted iPhone by sitting in the comforts of your home? Sounds enticing and beats a trip to the Apple store, isn't it?

This is the experience that a group of researchers at Northwestern University and France's Aix Marseille University would like you...

Body clock research wins the 2017 Nobel prize in physiology

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

On 2nd October 2017, the Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology was awarded to three American scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young, for their work on the body clock, also known as the circadian rhythm. Your body clock is why you wake up at 7 am on a Saturday, even though you can have a lie in and why people suffer from jet lag when they go on international flights. The body clock is synced up with how the earth rotates and makes sure that our bodies do different...

Planting trees no longer an option to mop up our increasing CO2 emissions

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Nations around the globe are stepping up, determined to uphold the 2015 Paris climate agreement of limiting the global warming to well below 2 degree Celsius, even as the United States infamously pulled out of it recently! Climatologists agree that the Paris climate deal sets an ambitious goal, which we can at best, strive to achieve. The sheer scale of reducing carbon dioxide (a major contributor of our warming planet) by curbing greenhouse gas emissions would take an unprecedented amount of...

Seven "Earth-ish" planets herald a new season in the search for alien life

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

Astronomers found seven approximately Earth-sized, rocky planets about 40 light years (235 trillion miles) from us. They are named after TRAPPIST1, the small, dim, relatively cold star they orbit, plus a letter (b through h). The announcement came during a much-hyped press conference from NASA headquarters on 22 February. The more a planet seems similar to Earth, the more it captivates scientists (and the public), because it might have the right conditions for life to blossom. Now they found...

Swarms of robots go with the flow to reveal the mysteries of the ocean

April 22, 2025 • 03:00 PM

About 70% of Earth's surface is covered by oceans. Yet, they remain mysterious: we have more detailed maps of the surface of other planets than of the sea floor, and we know even less about the mechanisms ticking inside the intricate oceanic system. An interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) Scripps Institute of Oceanography showed that swarms of small, autonomous robot probes could peer into the waters, shedding light on the interaction between...

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