Have you ever wondered if the Moon does more than just impact the tide? This is what scientists have been wondering for decades, and now, some of them are looking into it. A new study published in Nature sheds light on how the Moon may not only impact the ocean and its tides, but earthquakes. …
The Loch Ness Monster is a legend that dates back hundreds of years, depending on who you ask, but it grew in fame in 1934 when a man named Robert Kenneth Wilson supposedly photographed a creature in the lake. Since then, skeptics and believers alike have continued the debate over “Nessie’s” existence, but what does …
If you’re a fan of fictional crime scene investigation programs, you know that DNA can be a pretty convincing piece of evidence. This is also the case in real life, but now, DNA isn’t the only proof investigators may have at their fingertips. A new paper published by researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory …
Aliens might not be a frequent topic of discussion, but when scientists discover something unusual in outer space, it’s hard to keep the mind from wondering if we’re really the only ones in the universe. This is what happened recently when Russian astronomers happened to be observing HD 164595, a star in the constellation of …
A fossil isn’t always massive discovery for archaeologists, but when it happens to be 3.7 billion years old, it turns heads. This is what Australian scientists found when they were digging in a newly melted area of Greenland. According to their study, published in Nature, a 3.7 billion year-old fossil now shows that microbes may have lived on the …
Have you ever felt like you could never bear to go without coffee for the rest of your life? What about just caffeine in general? New research suggests that it might not just be a preference – you could be genetically pre-disposed to your love of caffeine. A study published in Scientific Reports has discovered …
We already have some scientific evidence that links obesity to cancer, but which ones? This is what researchers wanted to discover when they looked at data from both women and men in geographical locations around the world. Their findings, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, show that stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, ovary, meningioma, …
Could your fingers be linked to fish fins? Scientists’ new research may just lead us to the answer. A new study published by a team of researchers at the University of Chicago claim that there are significant evolutionary connections between our appendages and fish fins. Evolutionary biologist Neil H. Shubin has been seeking connections between …
Zika virus might not be a concern for you if you aren’t a female or attempting to start a family, right? Not so fast. A new study suggests that you might be at risk of cognitive issues if you happen to contract the mosquito-borne virus. A study performed in mice has discovered that adult brain …
Geographic Information Systems, commonly known as GIS, is relatively a new field that incorporates an interdisciplinary approach to visualizing data. This field is, in a broad terms, an intersection between geosciences (such as geography and geology) and computer science (graphics, data, programming, statistics). The main purpose of GIS is to represent data in a layered …