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The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said in a definitive 2013 report that there had been an actual slowdown of global warming during the last 15 years. The report noted that the warming rate during the period from 1998 through 2012 was less than the rate noted since 1951, but the body has also warned that because of natural unpredictability, trends based on short records were quite sensitive to the starting and end dates and generally don’t reflect long-term climate trends.

The thought about a global warming slowdown or ‘pause’ was continually cited by climate change skeptics and deniers after 2013 but the notion has been challenged by some of the recent scientific reports.

Want to be next Mark Zuckerberg and come up with a fresh innovation of your own? Well, a latest study suggested that you could be possibly as little like the Facebook co-founder as you can.

Contradicting the famous conception that innovation is generally driven only by young, technically skilled entrepreneurs, college dropouts to found a Silicon Valley startup, as new study said that the median age for successful innovators in the field of engineering, science, and technology is 47.

The presidential campaign is already roiled by the hot discussion of immigration and a debate regarding the H1-B skilled-worker visa program, it has turned out that 35% of successful innovators in such fields, often called STEM, took birth outside the US.

Nearly 25% of the entire marine life is hosted by coral reefs. However, corals have been struggling in building these huge calcium-carbonate-based structures. Previously, scientists have discovered that in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, coral growth rates have fallen by roughly 40% in the last 30 years.

The colorful marine ecosystems, reefs have to deal with many stressors such as pollution, overfishing, rising water temperatures and changing ocean chemistry. For better understanding of how damage can be reversed, scientists have been putting in efforts to isolate the impact of one stressor particularly, ocean acidification, on coral reefs.

Huge communities of migrating deep-sea marine life are to be blamed for a baffling, low-frequency humming sound that comes from the ocean when the creatures swim to and from the surface during feeding.

The University of California, San Diego assistant research biologist Simone Baumann-Pickering, has made a discovery, answering a long-standing query. NPR reported that the source of the hum has vexed marine biologists for years. They were very well aware that the sound wasn't constant with whale calls or other marine mammals, like dolphins, communicating.

On Wednesday, SpaceX decided to postpone the scheduled Florida launch of a Falcon 9 rocket on a satellite-delivery mission and attempted return-landing at sea for at least 24 hours. The company said that the decision has been taken to allow additional time to chill the rocket's propellant.

SpaceX said that blast-off of the 23-story-tall booster and its payload, a SES SA communications satellite, has been delayed to 6:46 pm on Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

In a message posted on Twitter wherein the delay announcement was made, the company said that rocket and spacecraft stay healthy. A few hours ago, SpaceX had explained weather conditions at the launch site as ‘60% go’ and mentioned that it was tracking thick clouds and high winds.

The ability of organisms such as cacti and desert beetles to collect water from thin air helps them survive in dry environment. For example, the Namib beetle gathers water droplets on the bumps of its shell while V-shaped cactus spines guide droplets to the plant’s body.

A graduate student at MIT, Kyoo-Chul Park has worked on a model comprising large mesh panels that could be put up in foggy weather, which would provide surfaces for the airborne water to condense upon. Such “fog-catchers” are being tested in Chilean hillsides to explore means to provide drinking water to people living in these extremely arid and remote places.