A new study has found that socioeconomic status (SES) has the strongest impact on whether secondary school students study the STEM sciences. A research team drew on data from over 4,300 pupils in Australia, and also looked at Indigenous students […]
The mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on a cave ceiling in Central Queensland has been solved, in article published in Historical Biology, after more than a half a century. University of Queensland palaeontologist Dr Anthony Romilio discovered pieces to a decades-old […]
A top ten of record-breaking US weather events of the last decade reveals Hurricane Harvey is the most extreme of the decade, and similar others were among the costliest and deadliest on record, according to magazine Weatherwise. Hurricane Harvey, the […]
New methods of testing and simulating air quality should be considered in order to help policy makers have a more accurate understanding of how emissions affect air pollution levels, new research suggests. In a review published in the Journal of […]
The finale of How Researchers Changed the World, now available as a complete podcast series, concludes with an inspiring personal story leading to research with real-world impact. Former Indian Army officer Colonel Divakaran Padma Kumar Pillay was severely wounded in […]
New research shows road salt runoff into Mirror Lake in Adirondack Park prevents natural water turnover and therefore poses a risk to the balance of its ecology. In a new study published in Lake and Reservoir Management, researchers from the […]
The shark is estimated to be nearly 17 feet or over 5 meters long A 91-million-year-old fossil shark newly named Cretodus houghtonorum discovered in Kansas joins a list of large dinosaur-era animals. Preserved in sediments deposited in an ancient ocean […]
Image: Image from 3D Model. Canterbury Museum CC BY NC Gigantic Prehistoric Penguin had Close Antarctic Relative A new species of giant penguin – about 1.6 metres tall – has been identified from fossils found in Waipara, North Canterbury. The […]
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Original artwork by Andrey Atuchin A surprise discovery in a Crimean cave suggests that early Europeans lived alongside some of the largest ever known birds, according to new research published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. It was previously […]
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