With today’s doodle, Google is celebrating the 115 years that have passed since the discovery of the Antikythera Mechanism. This amazing tool is regarded as the first computer in the world. The company wanted to highlight the importance that a relic can have when gathering knowledge and information. Google celebrates the Antikythera Mechanism with a […]

Scientists have analyzed the claws of all species of crustaceans and had decided that coconut crabs have the strongest ones, being incredibly powerful. Studies have proved that the largest crab living known as Birgus later can lift approximately 66 pounds with its claws. The force used to pinch its prey was estimated at 750 pounds. […]

    Last month, a Mars lander had impacted the Red Planet at 335 miles/hour, instead of using a maneuver of landing. This happened because a computer glitch which caused the rover to crash because of a misjudgment in measuring altitude. Schiaparelli was sent to the Red Planet for a test-run. Another bigger ship was […]

On November 19, the crews of the US, France, and Russia were welcomed by the International Space Station (ISS). A Russian Soyuz spaceship has brought to the space station Thomas Pesquet, a French astronaut of the European Space Agency (ESA), Peggy Whitson, from NASA, and Oleg Novitskiy, a cosmonaut of the Russian federal space agency […]

  Since we have commemorated World Prematurity Day, specialists informed people about premature births. On November 17 the whole planet honored World Prematurity Day, thus considering this the right opportunity to announce the alarming increasing cases of premature births in the United Kingdom. Along the years, in the UK there were registered high rates of […]

Biologists have developed a way to genetically modify plants to boost photosynthesis. Their purpose was to acquire a better use of the natural light. Scientists have majored crop productivity with 20% by genetically modifying plants to use a greater amount of light during the process of photosynthesis. This new breakthrough could be proved to be […]

Astronomers have revealed that the roundest celestial object in the universe is a star. Scientists have located the object at approximately five thousand light-years away from our planet. This star is even much bigger than twice the size of our Sun, being also more round. Experts have proved that planets and stars do not represent […]

Due to a new conservation strategy, grizzly bears might no longer be part of the Endangered Species List.  On November 16, Wyoming proposed that the federal protection for these animals should be removed. The Subcommittee of the Yellowstone Ecosystem had stated that a new conservation strategy for the protection of grizzly bears is pending authorization from the US […]

Unfortunately, global warming started being categorized as a great impact on the environment. Nature is slowly dying because we, people, do not struggle enough to change something. We all think that individually there is nothing we can do because no one will listen to us. That is why we need to behave like a community […]