Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter- and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first …
Troy Oakes
Troy Oakes
Troy was born and raised in Australia and has always wanted to know why and how things work, which led him to his love for science. He is a professional photographer and enjoys taking pictures of Australia's beautiful landscapes. He is also a professional storm chaser where he currently lives in Hervey Bay, Australia.
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Sixty-nine pharmaceutical compounds have been detected in stream insects, some at concentrations that may threaten animals that feed …
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Where did Earth’s water come from? A team of Arizona State University geoscientists led by Peter Buseck, Regents’ …
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The potentially rocky planet, known as Barnard’s star b, is a “super-Earth” with a mass of at least …
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Environment
Newly Discovered Deep-Sea Microbes Gobble Greenhouse Gases and Perhaps Oil Spills
by Troy OakesScientists at The University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute have discovered nearly two dozen new types …
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If extraterrestrial intelligence exists somewhere in our galaxy, a new MIT study proposes that lasers on Earth could, …
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Climate change may be occurring even faster than first thought. That is according to a ground-breaking new study …
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Currently, half of the world’s measured annual rain falls in just 12 days, according to a new analysis …
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An international research team, including The Australian National University (ANU), has used the Kepler space telescope in coordination …
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New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to ancient mammal extinctions in Africa …