If we talk about the impact of coronavirus pandemic on humanity, the things are disastrous and have left the people shocked across the globe. As death rates are rising in the USA, Spain and Italy, the world is worrying over the fact of how it will be controlled. The number of positive coronavirus cases is rising rapidly too, making the situation more worrisome.

With humans getting locked inside houses, the coronavirus lockdown is leaving some positive signs over European cities, the air pollution at the major cities has plunged to almost 40 per cent during the Covid 19 lockdown, according to a satellite data released by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Australia's Great Barrier Reef is facing the heat of rising ocean temperatures as it registered the third mass bleaching event in a matter of five years, said authorities on Thursday.

A new study suggests the Montreal Protocol - the 1987 agreement to stop producing ozone depleting substances (ODSs) - could be responsible for pausing, or even reversing, some troubling changes in air currents around the Southern Hemisphere.

In the latest discovery, scientists have located the microbes thriving thousands of feet beneath the seafloor. The findings have been published in a recent issue of "Nature". Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) describe how micro-organisms survive in rocks nestled in the lower oceanic crust.

The critter has been given a scientific name Ikaria Wariootia. Researchers led by geologists at the University of California (UC) Riverside have identified the critter as the first known bilaterian, an organism with a front and back, symmetrical sides and front and back openings with a gut in between.

Denman glacier located in East Antarctica has been found melting at a reckless pace in last two decades, to eventually raise the global sea level by 5 feet, claimed NASA-led research published today in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, claimed that the people may get infected with the coronavirus (Covid 19) via air and touching contaminated objects. The scientists found that the virus was detected in air for upto 3 hours. While it stuck to copper for four hours and up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.

A new study by the US researchers has clarified the speculations which claimed that the novel coronavirus was created in a laboratory and got leaked from a bio-warfare facility. They claimed that Covid-19 has natural origins.

There was a time when the Earth used to rotate faster than it does these days, resulting in 372 rotations per year, compared to the current 365. This means that the day used to last for only 23 and a half hour.

Amid coronavirus outbreak, there have been several reports which claimed that drinking alcohol can keep you stay protected from the deadly coronavirus.

The first lunar eclipse of 2020 is all set for Friday night (January 10) and the phenomenon can be seen from all corners of the nation.

While there has been a battle on climate change from a long time, the scientists have dug out the oldest forest in the fossil record at a quarry in the Catskill region of New York.

Earth's magnetic pole shifting its position is not new, it happens and that's fine; but what seems unusual is its aimless movement this time with a significant speed towards Siberia.

It's been decades since when the scientists have been trying to find out what is under the Antarctica's ice sheet. The new findings have revealed the mysteries below it.

The authorities have issued a warning against the newly discovered species and have asked people to kill it immediately if they come in contact of it.

As per scientific explanation, the lights are produced with the chemical reactions in the presence of oxygen involving an enzyme called “luciferase”. Bioluminescence can also be noticed in the fireflies.

A viral video of a spider with human-like face structure on its back is buzzing the social media these days. The interesting species have been spotted in China. The arachnid has managed to leave a lot of netizens scared with its unrealistic body prints.