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Worldwide bird watchers could hope to spend Valentine's Day weekend along with the birds, making a contribution to the Great Backyard Bird Count.

Citizen science movements are growing across the globe, as communities have been developing their amateur interest in galaxies, frogs or in birds in this case for providing data that can't be uncovered by any single scholar or even study research team.

In a phone interview, Pat Leonard of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who coordinates the 2016 Great Backyard Bird Count, said that's the sole way to keep track of things that are very widespread. It all became possible because of the Internet.

Swiss researchers have come up with a rescue drone which can autonomously identify and follow passageways via the undergrowth and rough terrain, with the help of sophisticated artificial intelligence.

The ultimate envision of the scientists is an entire fleet of the rescue drones that can swarm forests seeking missing people, functioning along with their human counterparts.

In a latest art series, NASA is looking quite beyond the earth’s orbit. Invisible Creature-designed travel posters have taken a futuristic look at the incredible potential of space tourism.

In a statement that went along with the calendar that features these designs, Charles Elachi, director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab, said, “Imagination is our window into the future. As you mark the passing of this year with these imaginative destinations, remember that you are the architects of the future. What we make and do will have a profound significance for generations to come”. The designers’ website has made the posters available for sale individually.

For a Laysan albatross named Wisdom, age is nothing more than just a number. At the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge in the Pacific Ocean, the 65-year-old bird has hatched a chick which is at least her sixth one since 2006.

Four years ago, no bird was known to have attained the same maternal feats when scientists initially began squawking loudly regarding Wisdom. The life of an average Laysan albatross comes to an end at less than half her age. Scientists used to think that albatross females, alike other birds, becomes infertile late in life, leading a life without producing chicks.

What about a material that is capable of supporting mass 1,000 times more than its own mass? And what more, it would bend or change shape with the mere warmth from a human hand. Researchers from the University of Rochester have developed this new polymer which, they claim, has traits that could make it "uniquely useful" in a wide range of fields, including medical science.

The findings of this study have been published in the Journal of Polymer Science Part B: Polymer Physics.

Decades after the departure of genius theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, scientists said he was right about gravitational waves. Physicists surprised science community on Thursday by announcing that they have successfully detected the ripples in spacetime that Einstein first predicted a century ago.

Gravitational waves have been a trending topic in science community since the German-born mentioned them in his theory of general relativity, but they became talk of the town last year when it was rumored that a team of astrophysicists has detected the waves. The astrophysicist team used the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) and discovered a gravitational wave that it believed was generated due to a collision between two black holes far from earth.