Engineers mixed rice-husk ash into asphalt; the farm waste could make roads more resistant to high-temperature damage |
Rice husk ash, a waste material from rice mills, may help make asphalt stiffer and more resistant to […]
Archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Roman-era pyramid tomb in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis; the small mud-brick monument combines Egyptian, Greek and Roman traditions and held a married couple
A rare pyramid-shaped tomb dating to the Roman period has been uncovered at Bir Al-Shaghala in Egypt’s Dakhla […]
A 300-foot Maldives beach was shrinking slowly; then MIT researchers built an artificial reef that helped the shoreline grow by 90 feet and double in size
A 300-foot beach on a tiny island in the Maldives was slowly eroding away. In order to solve […]
In 2019, a former US merchant mariner opened a Mississippi wildlife rescue after finding a baby raccoon on her ship; seven years later, 76 orphaned kits are learning to forage, swim and survive before release
Not just humans, even raccoons are being trained for survival in boot camps now. In a wildlife centre […]
‘Satellite-as-a-Service’: IN-SPACe sets rules for hosted Indian, foreign payloads
New framework allows Indian entities to offer satellite capacity to domestic and overseas customers BENGALURU: Space regulator-cum-promoter IN-SPACe […]
A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift lab; then she discovered two new species of microscopic amoebae |
A scientist turned an $80 motel room into a makeshift laboratory during follow-up fieldwork in North Carolina after […]
For years, visitors placed coins in the cracks of Giant’s Causeway for good luck; now more than 20 kilos are being removed to protect the World Heritage Site from crumbling
Many times, human actions surpass their simplicity of tradition to evolve into a climate hazard. This is what […]
Illinois is starting a roughly $15 million restoration of 794 acres at Dutch Gap Forest Preserve, reversing more than a century of farm drainage to rebuild wetlands, streams, prairie and savanna
A major ecological change is beginning in northern Illinois, where conservation officials are reversing more than a century […]
Why reindeer eyes turn deep blue in winter and how it helps them see in Arctic twilight |
Reindeer eyes undergo a striking seasonal change that helps them cope with the unusual light of the Arctic […]
Nasa thought an ancient Martian lake shaped these rocks; Perseverance found evidence of three water events |
When Nasa’s Perseverance rover reached the inner edge of Jezero Crater in September 2023, scientists expected to find […]