KUALA LUMPUR: Academics believe that one of the main factors behind the decline in the number of students choosing the science stream at Sijil Pelajaran (SPM), Malaysia, is the weakness among primary school students in mastering the basic concepts of science and mathematics. . Dr Anuar Ahmad, senior lecturer at the Center for Education and … Read more
Detection of the cosmogenic isotope aluminum-26; nickel, cobalt, germanium and gallium concentrations; and the presence of two minerals called kamacite and taenite clearly indicate the meteorite nature of the ancient arrowhead from the Bronze Age settlement in Mörigen, Switzerland. Morigen arrowhead. Image credit: Thomas Schüpbach. A researcher at the Natural History Museum of Bern and … Read more
The gentle giants of the sea, the blue whale and other baleen whales, use a filter feeding system in their mouths to sift large quantities of small prey from the ocean water. However, they were not the first sea creatures to be fed this way. Fossils found in China’s Hubei Province indicate that an interesting … Read more