Humboldt Squids Send Glowing Messages!

The deeper you go below the surface, the darker it gets. So, how do animals communicate with each other if it's too dark for them to barely see each other? Past research has shown that some animals, such as whales and dolphins, communicate by emitting sound. Recently, scientists from Stanford University and the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) made a fascinating discovery. Ben Burford (from Stanford) and Bruce Robison found that Humboldt squids -- which belong to the cephalopod family, communicate using bioluminescent organs. Bioluminescence is the ability of marine animals to...

Will We Ever Find Endurance?

The missing ship of Earnest Shackleton is still to this day a mystery for scientists. Earnest Shackleton was an iconic Antarctic explorer. When he led the Trans-Antarctic Expedition, his ship, Endurance was crushed by ice. He and his crew drifted on ice sheets for months until they arrived at Elephant Island where they were rescued. More in our earlier article here . Last year, a group of scientists launched a mission to find the wreckage of Endurance but struggled as the area above the wreckage was full of ice sheets that were hard to penetrate. The mission, called Weddell Sea Expedition...

A Virtual Tribute On ANZAC Day

The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted daily life and prevented large public gatherings around the world. As a result, New Zealand and Australia have had to cancel a major national anniversary for the first time in history. ANZAC Day, or Australia and New Zealand Army Corps, marks an important century-old historical event that shapes the identities of these two countries. It memorializes soldiers who served and sacrificed for their nations during WWI. Instead of attending traditional ceremonies, thousands of citizens stood outside their driveways at dawn and listened to virtual services over...

Why Are Oil Prices Falling?

Our world runs on oil. Unrefined oil, called crude oil, is turned into gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel so that we can go to work and school or fly across the world. Factories need oil to operate. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has abruptly halted mass transportation and manufacturing, meaning that oil-consuming countries do not want as much oil. For huge oil-producing countries, this means figuring out where to store the oil that has nowhere to go. The Oil Price War Saudi Arabia and Russia are the world’s No. 2 and No. 3 oil-producing countries. Saudi Arabia leads OPEC, a group of the world’s...

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