After decades of environmental decline, Florida’s Indian River Lagoon is beginning to show signs of recovery. With funding from NOAA Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation, the Indian River Lagoon Council is leading a system-wide effort to restore the habitats that once sustained the lagoon’s fish and wildlife. A team of three scientists and one fisherman…
While one might assume that lowering huge white blocks of concrete into the sea was an attempt at dumping construction waste offshore, in Britain’s North Sea it is a conservation effort. The country is dumping 20 carefully designed structures into the deep waters to restore the population of the European native oyster, Ostrea edulis, along…
In an age of constant notifications, endless scrolling and instant entertainment, Leonardo da Vinci’s centuries-old warning about an inactive mind feels surprisingly modern. “Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation… even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind,” Leonardo wrote in his notebooks. The Renaissance polymath used familiar examples from…
Quote of the Day by Albert Einstein (Representative image) Two people can be told they have no special gift for something and respond in completely different ways. One takes it as a verdict and stops trying. The other decides that gift was never really the point, and keeps going anyway, driven by something that has…
To identify a suitable industry partner, IN-SPACe has issued an expression of interest (EoI) inviting proposals from eligible Indian entities to operate and manage the new launch complex, which is being built primarily for launches involving small rockets. BENGALURU: Space promoter-cum-regulator IN-SPACe has begun the process of handing over the operations and management of the…
A packet of meat can look fresh on the supermarket shelf even while bacteria are already multiplying inside. By the time a spoiled smell, discolouration or slimy texture becomes obvious, indicating that the meat has gone stale, the food may no longer be safe to eat.To find a solution to this, researchers at Kyushu University…
Cloud aerosols on Venus contain far more water than scientists have assumed for decades, alongside comparable amounts of iron sulfate and sulfuric acid. Researchers led by R. Mogul revisited previously uncharacterised data from the Pioneer Venus Large Probe, which descended through the planet’s atmosphere in 1978, and found that the probe’s instruments had unknowingly captured…
In 1849, Italian-born inventor Antonio Meucci began developing an early voice-transmission device that would later be known as the “teletrofono.” Decades of experimentation, financial hardship and a lapsed patent caveat meant that credit for the telephone ultimately went to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. Meucci’s story, however, did not end there. Nearly 113 years after…
Photo credit: Jstage.jst.go.jp A small dinosaur bone discovered in Fukushima, Japan, more than two decades ago has given scientists a new glimpse into the diversity of ancient life along East Asia’s coast.The fossil, found in 1999 and left largely unexamined for years, has now been identified as part of the breastbone of a plant-eating dinosaur…
Nearly seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean lies a place so hostile that only a handful of human beings in all of history have ever seen it. Total darkness, near-freezing water, and pressure equivalent to a jet’s weight bearing down on a single postage stamp define this world. According to Guinness World…