Oceanography
Philippine Navy saves sea turtles
The Navy and the Philippine environmental workers saved 14 sea turtles after they caught the poachers' nets. AFP said the Philippine Department of Environment staff and…
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Oceanography
Finding 'Noel lobster' shell is as white as snow
Fishermen who found snow-white lobsters in their nets decided not to eat them and took them to a aquatic center in Weymouth, Dorset, where it attracted a large number of…
Oceanography
Catch white shark close to Quy Nhon beach
The shark was caught in the net of Phan Van Dau fishermen, about 300 m away from Quy Nhon coast. White sharks are considered the most aggressive species.
Archeology
Discover the oldest fishing net lead ever
Korean archaeologists announced the discovery of 14 lead limestone fishing nets dating back about 29,000 years in the Maedun cave in eastern Jeongseon district, Gangwon…
Archeology
Discovery of prehistoric spider nets
This is the oldest spider web in the world discovered, scientists determined its date about 140 million years ago.
Space science
Space waste - threat exists
The threat from cosmic garbage is increasing as more and more missile or satellite fragments fail or stop appearing in orbit near Earth.
Space science
Japan makes a net to clean garbage in space
The Japan Space Exploration Agency (JAXA) cooperates with a fishing equipment manufacturing company to create a kind of net from school, dedicated to clearing space.
Biology
The spider is strong enough to stop a train
Superheroes' nets Spiders can actually block a running train like in a movie if it recreates what's available in nature.
Animal world
The way the primates' brains look
The primates' brains see the world through triangular grids, according to a new study published online October 28 in the journal Nature.
Animal world
Rough whale weighs 2 tons and catches fishermen's nets
At the bottom of fishing catch near the mouth of the sea, the nets of Ca Mau fishermen with elephant shark (included in the red book) weigh about 2 tons. Once the boat i…
Animal world
Sword lake turtle is put on land
50 people, including the special commando, captured the Sword Lake of this afternoon. After a few hours, the Tortoise was driven into a steel cage and led to the Tortois…
Animal world
Colorful woven spider to do?
Ecologist Todd Blackledge of the University of California, Berkeley (USA) - has been working for a long time - assuming that many spiders often adorn their nets with shi…
Scientific application
How to identify harmful spiders on plant leaves?
Different from large-sized prey spiders, often with nets or crawling on flowers, leaves to catch insects that are useful species or also called natural enemy spiders, sp…
Scientific application
Turn coconut shell into mesh against erosion
A Filipino scientist has turned the coconut shell into a kind of self-destructing mesh. Grids work against erosion for slopes and river banks, stimulate plant growth and…
Environment
Proposal to kill red-eared turtle of Sword Lake with net
Hanoi Department of Science and Technology proposed using cages or nets to catch red-eared turtles at Sword Lake in order to rescue ancient turtles.