Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned.

Over the [...]

A team of scientists from Caltech (California Institute of Technology) have developed a “barcode chip” that represents e new milestone in diagnostic medical testing. This chip uses very little blood to calculate the concentrations for dozens of proteins. Among these proteins, the ones that mark presence of heart diseases and cancer are measured. And all [...]

Despite broad “dolphin safe” practices, fishing activities have continued to restrict the growth of at least one Pacific Ocean dolphin population, a new report led by a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has concluded.
Populations of dolphins in the Eastern Pacific were expected to increase in abundance after successful regulations and [...]

Earth’s magnetic field, which shields our planet from particles streaming outward from the Sun, often develops two holes that allow the largest leaks, according to researchers sponsored by NASA and the National Science Foundation.

“The discovery overturns a long-standing belief about how and when most of the solar particles penetrate Earth’s magnetic field, and could be [...]

New research shows that we should be looking to the ground, not the sky, to see where climate change could have its most perilous impact on life on Earth — global warming actually changes the molecular structure of organic matter in soil.
“Soil contains more than twice the amount of carbon than does the atmosphere, yet, [...]