Honeybees Have a Bite That Stuns
Honeybees are well known for their sting, but scientists have discovered that they also have a bite that stuns. Bees resort to biting when faced…
Honeybees are well known for their sting, but scientists have discovered that they also have a bite that stuns. Bees resort to biting when faced…
The Georgia Aquarium’s controversial plan to move 18 wild beluga whales into captivity has met with fierce opposition. Opponents state that their capture was inhumane,…
The 2012 Move an Asteroid Technical Paper Competition winner, Sung Wook Paek, a graduate student in MIT’s Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, proposed using a…
In the 15th century, the population of the city-state Xaltocan, part of the Otomí, vanished and was replaced by the growing Aztec culture. The fate…
Tyrannosaurus rex bite marks have been found on the fossilized bones of Triceratops horridus, but so far such fossils have been studied in an isolated…
U.S. Federal health agencies have started to tighten security surrounding the research on deadly pathogens. The move is to enhance public safety, but some fear…
Last July, a chartered fishing boat strewed 100 tonnes of iron sulfate into the ocean, off the western coast of Canada. The goal was to…
A controversial new claim made by archaeologists states that the Easter Island moai statues could have walked out of the quarries in which they were…
A careful study of ancient artifacts in Italy has pushed back the earliest documented appearance of orchids from the Renaissance to Roman times. The orchid’s…
It’s always been contentious when primates started climbing trees. The discovery of some new ankle bones is now making it look like primates have always…
When a beluga’s caretakers heard noises that sounded like garbled phrases emanating from its enclosure, they realized that the whale might be imitating the voices…
Climate records from a Japanese lake will improve the accuracy of dating techniques, which will probably help shed light on some mysteries such as the…
A team of Japanese researchers has been working on using neuroimaging techniques to decode the dreams of people while they sleep. The researchers were led…
Pachycephalosaurids had domed heads with thick, bony protuberances, which paleontologists hypothesized the dinosaurs used in courtship behavior, perhaps to determine which male would be allowed…
A rare species of ibis is part of a large European conservation effort, and the leading bird in this project was killed last weekend by…
A recently published study from scientists at the Berkeley Lab, in collaboration with researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University, found that moderately high indoor concentrations…
Scientifically unfounded assertions about transgenic foods and animals are widely circulating in the American zeitgeist. Claims that transgenic foods are responsible for the rise of…
Back in 2009, researchers had become quite excited about Predator X, an immense, big-headed marine reptile that was supposed to have a bite four times…