Bristol scientists found that animals utilizing the most effective ways of resource hunting may die. Today's Behavioural Ecology discoveries explain why animals don't always adopt the best search method. How animals travel through their ecosystem, especially to get food, is a key biology subject that affects how they adapt to environmental change. Numerous studies have shown that Lévy mobility, which involves long-distance travels between search regions and intense searches in one area, improves resource discovery. Many animals employ this movement. Three-spined stickleback Wikimedia Commons This study shows that prey employing Lévy motion are targeted twice as often as prey using Brownian motion, the movement of molecules in a gas and a baseline expectation. “We sho...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope found a rare main belt comet's water vapor signal for the first time. This month's Nature article explains Earth's plentiful water and for the first time finds water from the early solar system between Mars and Jupiter. “Our water-soaked world, teeming with life and unique in the universe as far as we know, is something of a mystery – we’re not sure how all this water got here,” study coauthor Stefanie Milam, Webb deputy project scientist for planetary science, said in a press statement. “Understanding the history of water distribution in the solar system will help us understand other planetary systems and whether they could host an Earth-like planet,” she said. Water Vapor in Rare Main Belt Comet Found by NASA's Webb Telescope Study coau...

Aside from spending on space programs, the South African scientific budget for 2023-24 indicates that further cuts are on the way. A banner year for science, but one that brought very few advantages to the field as a whole, both in terms of research and innovation. This is the forecast that was given during the voting and discussion on South Africa's science budget for 2023-2024, which took place on May 23. A considerable increase from its previous allocation of R9.1 billion in 2022-23, the Department of Science and Innovation will be given 10.9 billion rands, which is equivalent to 570 million US dollars. The majority of this increase, on the other hand, is going into the field of space science, and more specifically, the nation's Space Infrastructure Hub and the Square Kilomet...

Officials have announced that South Korea will launch its indigenous Nuri rocket on Thursday, a day after the launch was postponed due to a technical malfunction just hours before liftoff. It will be the third launch of the Nuri, which successfully launched test payloads into orbit last year after its third-stage engine prematurely burned out in 2021. A communication error between the launch control computer and another computer managing the launch site led to the cancellation of Wednesday's launch. This issue was resolved on Thursday morning, according to officials, who reported that the Nuri is now operational. After a delay, South Korea will launch a rocket it made itself. Vice minister Oh Tae-seog stated, "The Ministry of Science and ICT made the final decision to p...

Following its launch on a Soyuz rocket at 8:56 a.m. (5:56 p.m. Baikonur time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the unmanned Roscosmos Progress 84 spacecraft arrived at the Poisk module of the International Space Station at 12:19 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, May 24. The cargo ship Progress is now transporting around three tons' worth of provisions, fuel, and supplies to the International Space Station on behalf of the Expedition 69 crew.