Science

Trees are losing leaves due to climate change

[ad_1] Each year, in a process known as sensation, the leaves of deciduous trees turn yellow, orange and red as they stop growing and before they fall off the tree before winter, the plant’s nutrients are absorbed. Leaf detection also marks the end of the period during which plants absorb …

Read More »

Neanderthals didn’t use their thumbs like modern humans do

[ad_1] Reconstructions of a Neanderthal man and woman. Photo: Martin Meissner (AP) An analysis of Neanderthal hand bones suggests that these extinct humans possessed the thumbs best suited for power take-offs, as opposed to precision grips, which could mean they used their hands differently to us. Researchers found fundamental physical …

Read More »

Australian scientists find wombats glow under UV rays

[ad_1] Australian animals are illuminated. Scientists in Australia have made the surprising discovery that wombats and other marsupials glow under ultraviolet light, following the accidental discovery by US scientists that another of the country’s native animals is biofluorescent. Researchers at the Western Australian Museum uncovered the secret of the stocky …

Read More »