(Natural News) Impacts from near-Earth objects (NEO) have caused some of the biggest mass extinction events ever experienced by Earth. Now, an international team has come together for an exercise to track one such NEO and assess the threat it posed while demonstrating how experts from around the world can come together in response to such […]

(Natural News) Researchers from China have discovered that coronavirus patients can be infectious for up to five weeks after they first develop symptoms. Their study found that COVID-19 can live in people’s respiratory tracts for as long as 37 days after they were diagnosed. Most healthcare experts around the globe have been recommending an isolation period […]

(Natural News) As it turns out, the addition of cheap, plastic lenses can effectively boost the efficiency of solar-powered water desalination systems. This is according to researchers from Rice University’s Laboratory for Nanophotonics (LANP), who found that by concentrating sunlight into “hotspots” using lenses, they could boost the efficiency of solar-powered membrane distillation desalination systems […]

(Natural News) Humans can identify and express emotions through the sound and tone of their voice – and it turns out that some animals are capable of this, too. A recent research suggests that goats can detect emotional changes in other goats simply by listening to their vocal calls. Researchers from Queen Mary University of […]

(Natural News) Scientists have been able to confirm the source of a short-lived “radio outburst.” Apparently, it comes from a galaxy located 3.6 billion light years away from Earth. This short-lived radio outburst is known as a fast radio burst (FRB) and scientists have been perplexed by them for years. They appear as fleeting signals from distant universes that […]

(Natural News) Current geological models of Earth’s past tend to assume that the seven continents as we know them have been consistent throughout out planet’s history. A recent study, however, has called that into doubt, hinting at the possibility that other continents may have come and gone in our planet’s prehistoric past. Scientists at the University of Adelaide in Australia […]

(Natural News) The coronavirus is sweeping across the United States at an unprecedented rate. Since the first confirmed case in Washington state on January 20, hundreds of new cases have emerged in different states, and the number of coronavirus deaths has risen to nine as of Tuesday. Following warnings of possible community spread of the coronavirus by the Centers for […]

(Natural News) The quest for renewable energy has led some scientists to think small, that is, on a microscopic scale. A recent study has demonstrated how mixing microbes and a carbon nanomaterial can be used to help create biohybrid materials that can be used in several green energy applications. Led by Pascal Sailaly, a team […]

(Natural News) Cyanide is a poison that can kill humans and animals alike. However, scientists are looking at the chemicals present in some asteroids as a way to better understand how life first emerged on our planet. According to a study by scientists at Boise State University and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the […]

(Natural News) In the site known as Ala-Tei in the Tuva Republic, in Russia, scientists are racing against time to retrieve dozens of treasures from over 110 burial sites — all of which are thousands of years old. The Tuva Republic, one of the federal subjects of the Russian Federation, sits in the so-called Sayan Sea, an artificial reservoir created when […]