A new experiment is testing the commercial success of fish traps in Washington and Oregon. Even as some conservationists embrace the technique, its return has reopened old wounds among local fishers
Category: 9. Sci/Tech
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Fish Traps Have Been Banned on the Columbia River for Nearly a Century. Could Bringing Them Back Help Save Salmon?
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Scientists train for polar ice diving to research warming planet
The frigid waters of a Finnish lake recently yielded a…
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The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to…
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One Predator Scares Away White Sharks Even More Than Orcas : ScienceAlert
Off the coast of South Africa, near the fishing town of Gansbaai, two orcas have made a name for themselves worldwide.
Their names are Port and Starboard, and on multiple occasions, they’ve been observed hunting and killing one of the most…
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One Way or Another, Most of Our Electricity Comes From Solar Power
Get it? So a spinning loop produces an oscillating flux; if you graphed its values it would trace out a sine wave. That creates an oscillating voltage in the wire, causing electrons to move, and boom: you have alternating current. You just…
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Scientists mimicking the Big Bang accidentally turn lead into gold
Medieval alchemists dreamed of transmuting lead into gold.
Today, we know that lead and gold…
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At Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, the War Isn’t Over
In early December, Ahmed recalls, “we heard tanks advancing from the edge of the yellow line.” Soon, a 14-year-old girl was rushed into the ICU with a shrapnel wound to the abdomen. The girl needed 250 milliliters of blood, “a precious…
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Cloned predecessor to Dolly the sheep goes on permanent show at museum
A cloned sheep that helped pave the way for the creation of Dolly the sheep has gone on show…
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Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability : ScienceAlert
The Chernobyl exclusion zone may be off-limits to humans, but not to every form of life.
Ever since the Unit Four reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded nearly 40 years ago, other kinds of life-forms have not only moved in but
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240-Million-Year-Old Coelacanth May Have Used Lungs to Hear Underwater
Learn how fossils and high-resolution imaging revealed that some Triassic fish may have used a lung-like organ to detect sound underwater — and what that suggests about early vertebrate senses.
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