For years, scientists have sprayed oxytocin, known as the love hormone, on the noses of lions. The result: royal animals become much friendlier to their neighbors and less often roar against unknown lions.
The study,...
A team of Canadian scientists from the University of Waterloo have found signs of ancient life inside a 2.5 billion year old ruby. Corundum was found in Greenland.
The oldest rubies on the planet -...
One of the latest developments of Turkmen chemists is a method for obtaining coagulants (purifiers) for seawater desalination. This development for obtaining drinking water through the processing of sea by coagulation is intended for...
Spider monkeys prefer fruits affected by insects, Brazilian and American scientists have found out. Eating fruits along with larvae, monkeys compensate for the lack of protein in the diet. Previous studies have shown that...
"There is clear and drinking water, yellow water, black and stagnant - heavy water, there is mineral water. But the birds know it best. There may be thousands of waters, but they will choose...
Scientists report decline in barn swallow and lark, storks become more
The number of birds in agricultural lands has decreased by 25% in the last 17 years. The trend is the brightest for them, Yordan...
In the heart of Switzerland, a world-record technical innovation awaits you: the steepest funicular in the world, which climbs from Schwyz to Stoos.
This is Stoosbahn. A real miracle of Swiss engineering. Engineers have designed...
Ice losses occur in 2 ways: direct melting and tearing off icebergs
The Greenland ice sheet has lost more ice in the summer than it has accumulated during the winter season for the 25th consecutive...
Scientists have shown for the first time that non-human primates can have an individual style of drawing that, in some cases, evolves over the course of life. After analyzing 790 drawings created by Kalimantan...
Reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN Secretary-General insisted that unless governments everywhere reassess their energy policies, the world will be uninhabitable.
HALLE (SAALE), SAXONY-ANHALT, GERMANY, April 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Agriculture is the main driver of global deforestation and land conversion, and food systems account for more than a third of global greenhouse gas emissions,...
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, March 30, 2022 - New first-of-its-kind modelling commissioned by Carbon-Free Europe shows the European Union’s most feasible, cost-effective pathway to net-zero by 2050 must retain existing carbon-free energy sources including nuclear and...
The solutions to restore the health of the ocean -which provides us with oxygen, food and livelihoods- are out there, and in 100 days they will be in the spotlight in Lisbon, Portugal, at the second ever UN Oceans Conference.
Parliament is ready to negotiate with EU governments on the final shape of the new rules governing the entire battery product life cycle, from design to end-of-life.
During the debate on Wednesday, MEPs underlined the...
An international team of researchers, including Russian ones, has established that horses were first domesticated on the territory of the modern Volga-Don region of Russia more than 4200 years ago. The article devoted to...
Living in the Indonesian forest of Batang Toru, orangutans are the rarest monkeys on the planet, and they are threatened with extinction. Only recently have scientists discovered that these creatures are representatives of the...
The noise of boats powered by combustion engines has a negative effect on female grinds with calves. Zoologists have found that in response to the approach of such a vessel, the mother grind reduces...
The trees have either dried up naturally or have been cut down as an emergency measure, as is the practice in infecting them with pests.
Satellite images have shown that forests in Germany have decreased...
Why do some scientists want to "dark" the Sun
Why do some scientists want to "dark" the Sun, while others sound the alarm
An open letter was published from 46 scientists and experts in which they...
Scientists have established the cause of the disappearance of mammoths in Siberia
An extensive study based on soil DNA has shown that climate change was not the cause of the extinction of woolly mammoths in...
Some East African birds have been singing the same song for hundreds of thousands of years
Scientists were able to establish this through field research.
A new study by biologists from the University of California at...
Biophysicists have found that cuticulosomes (small magnetic organelles in the inner ear of birds) are most likely not involved in the mechanism of magnetic reception. With the help of quantum magnetic microscopy, scientists have...