Directed energy weapons shoot painful but non-lethal beams – are similar weapons behind the Havana syndrome?

If Havana syndrome is the result of deliberately targeted electromagnetic beams, employees of the US government and other nations will remain …

Now, a technology that can make reading latent fingerprints faster

Since this new nanomaterial is luminescent, it highlights fingerprints, which can be captured by UV lamps and then reconstructed

Good news! Recovery of ozone layer achieves significant milestone

Levels of ozone-depleting substances in 2022 are back to those observed in 1980 before ozone depletion was significant

104 shark and ray species now receive new protections, but are they enough?

Improved fisheries management is essential to ensure long-term sustainability for sharks and rays as well as the associated fisheries as food and …

Fake medicine from the sea

That terrestrial species like the rhino and tiger are targeted for use in Traditional Chinese Medicine is well known. What is not is that this …

Scientists decode how UV rays damage our skin

Ultraviolet rays weaken bonds between cells in top layer of skin and causes damage

Over 390 species of sharks, rays, chimaera in danger of extinction: Study

Overfishing, the biggest threat, is compounded by loss and degradation of habitat, pollution as well as climate change 

CITES CoP 2019: 18 endangered sharks and rays afforded protection

Mako sharks, giant guitarfish and wedgefish are among those which have now been included in Appendix II of CITES, enabling sustainable trade in them

One drop of sunscreen can damage a fragile coral reef system, says report

A chemical found in these creams and lotions not only kills the corals but also causes DNA damage in both adults and larvae

COVID-19: Can cotton wear allow better vitamin D synthesis

Vitamin D deficiency makes people more susceptible to COVID-19; countries with high levels of vitamin D deficiency reported higher mortality …

Steep decline in predatory fish population in past 40 years, says study

Humans reduced the biomass of predatory by two-third in just one century; decline hastened in the 1970s