Sofia Quaglia

1 week ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

A colossal squid — the largest invertebrate on the planet — has been filmed alive in its wild habitat for the first time. For decades, the Kraken-like colossal squid (Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni) was more myth than reality: scientists had only a vague sense of its appearance from fragments of its remains found in the stomachs of the whales that eat the molluscs. In fact, it was through those remains that the species was officially described by zoologists in 1925.

1 week ago | newscientist.nl | Sofia Quaglia

Het aantal dinosaurussen was mogelijk stabiel voor de inslag van de planetoïde. Dit gaat in tegen eerdere aanwijzingen uit fossielen die erop wezen dat de dinosaurussoorten al afnamen. De populaties van dinosaurussen gingen waarschijnlijk niet achteruit in de periode vlak voordat een planetoïde ze allemaal wegvaagde. In plaats daarvan zijn er misschien simpelweg weinig fossielen uit die periode. Daarop wijst nieuw onderzoek.

2 weeks ago | newscientist.com | Sofia Quaglia

Life The number of dinosaurs may have been stable before the asteroid impact, despite evidence that species were getting less diverse Dinosaurs likely weren’t declining before an asteroid wiped them all out; instead, there may just be limited fossils from that time period, according to a new study. It has been hotly debated whether dinosaur populations were thriving or dwindling when a huge asteroid slammed into the planet about 66 million years ago.

1 month ago | realclearscience.com | Eric Berger |Sofia Quaglia

Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for NASA's second Space Launch System rocket into position between the vehicle's two solid-fueled boosters. Working inside the iconic 52-story-tall Vehicle Assembly Building, ground teams used heavy-duty cranes to first lift the butterscotch orange core stage from its cradle in the VAB's cavernous transfer aisle, the central passageway between the building's four rocket assembly bays.

1 month ago | sciencefocus.com | Sofia Quaglia

When French scientists Laurence Gaume and Marion Desquilbet first heard the news about a new international insect decline database, they felt something was off. It suggested that some insect species were actually on the rise – a claim that contradicted years of research. So, they called each other up. “We were concerned. We felt their conclusions were over-optimistic,” says Desquilbet, an environmental economist at Toulouse School of Economics.