New killer robot set to destroy pests on the Great Barrier Reef
THE WORLD'S FIRST robot to control marine pests has completed trials on the Great Barrier Reef, successfully hunting down and killing the coral destroying crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS). The robot known as COTSbot is the first in the world designed to eradicate the COTS responsible for around 40 per cent of the Great Barrier Reef's total loss of coral. The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) said the trials proved the underwater robot vehicle could successfully navigate through difficult..>> view originalA Major Climate Threshold Has Been Permanently Crossed
For the first time in human history, atmospheric CO2 concentrations exceeded 400 parts per million (ppm) in 2015. They’re expected to do so again this year, and every subsequent year for many generations to come, according to a new report issued by the World Meteorological Organisation. Image: David Stanley/Flickr Four hundred ppm is one of the most important symbolic thresholds in the climate change conversation, rivalled only by the 2C warming threshold world leaders agreed not to cross when..>> view originalBrain adapts to dishonesty: study
Scientists map the Milky Way Galaxy in exceptional detail
The info isn't just useful for visualizing humanity's cosmic neighborhood, of course. Those structures likely helped form stars in the Milky Way for billions of years, so they could offer insight into the galaxy's development. It could help us understand the rest of the universe, as well. As everything we can observe passes through that hydrogen, knowing its concentrations will help scientists correct their findings. It's like cleaning a window, the study's Dr. Benjamin Winkel says. The ma..>> view originalNight parrot population discovered in Queensland national park
The elusive night parrot has been recorded in Diamantina national park in central-west Queensland, expanding its known range and leading scientists to believe it may not be as rare as previously thought. The bird, described by Bush Heritage Australia’s Jim Radford as a “dumpy budgerigar” or a “podgy, sort of smallish, green and yellow parrot”, was thought to be extinct for more than 100 years before ornithologist John Young managed to photograph it in 2013. That discovery was made on an area o..>> view originalJapan's whaling back in focus as battle lines harden at IWC meeting
POTOROZ, SLOVENIA – Pro- and anti-whaling nations clashed at a key meeting Monday where Japan sought to ease a 30-year-old moratorium on commercial hunts while others pushed for an Atlantic whale sanctuary. Host Slovenia urged compromise the sake of the marine mammals — some species of which were hunted to near-extinction in the 20th century—- but member states of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) soon split into familiar factions. Japan, which conducts a yearly whale hunt in the nam..>> view originalDozens of ancient shipwrecks found accidentally during Black Sea mapping
Dozens of ancient shipwrecks found accidentally during Black Sea mapping Updated October 25, 2016 14:03:46 Dozens of shipwrecks, the first of their kind seen from bygone empires, have been a "complete bonus" discovery for researchers mapping the Black Sea.The international team of scientists came across more than 40 wrecks while surveying the seabed near Bulgaria to understand how quickly land in the area was inundated following the last ice age 20,000 years ago."The wr..>> view original13 YO Indian-American Maanasa Mendu Wins America's Top Young Scientist, Awarded With Rs.16 Lacs
13-year-old Maanasa Mendu won the 2016 Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge and became America’s Top Young Scientist. She also received $25,000 (Rs.16 Lacs) to work on her future projects. Mendu created a cost-effective technology to create energy using solar leaves. The leaves generate energy from precipitation, the wind, and the sun using a solar cell and piezoelectric material (the part of the leaf that picks up on the vibrations) and the same is converted into different forms a..>> view originalUniverse not expanding at accelerating rate: Study
London, Oct 25 (IANS) Challenging a standard cosmological concept, a team of researchers led by an Indian-origin scientist has found that the universe may not actually be expanding at an accelerating pace as was previously believed. Back in 2011, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three astronomers for their discovery, in the late 1990s, that the universe is expanding at an accelerating pace. Their conclusions were based on analysis of Type Ia supernovae - the spectacular ther..>> view original
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