Rats Will Help Other Rats
Calling someone a dirty rat might not have the same impact it used to have because new research reveals that rats are more likely to…
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Twin Rainbows Simulated In 3D
Yes, that really is a rare twin rainbow in the image above where two colorful arcs spring from the same starting point. You’ve probably seen…
Rare Leopard Photographed In Afghan Mountains
A leopard, once thought to be long gone from the Afghan mountains, was spotted thanks to some camera traps in Afghanistan’s central highlands. It would…
Rarest Bumblebee In US Found In New Mexico
Researchers from the University of California Riverside have rediscovered one of the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States; the Cockerell’s Bumblebee. This is…
New Dinosaur Species Announced
A new species of horned dinosaur has been announced by an international team of scientists. It’s called Spinops sternbergorum and it lived about 76 million…
Naked Mole Rats Make Slow Sperm
Naked Mole Rats are all teeth and skin. They are fairly ugly by our usual standards and as it turns out, so is their sperm,…
Turtle Eggs Communicate To Hatch At The Same Time
When Australian river turtles lay their eggs in a hole in a sandy riverbank, there is no good reason that they would hatch at the…
The Paper Wasp Recognizes Faces
Don’t judge the brain of the Paper Wasp by its size. Their brains are less than a millionth the size of human brains, but they…
Globe-Trekking Sea Turtle Comes Home
Three years ago, a frigid sea turtle was found in the icy waters of the North Sea. Survival did not look good at the time,…
Male Guppies Keep Their Females Happy By Avoiding Change
For the past 500,000 years, Guppies have changed their color dramatically, but yet an orange patch on males has remained unchanged. It’s all about romance….
Lava Fingerprinting Reveals Differences Between Hawaiian Volcanoes
According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Nature Geoscience, Hawaii’s main volcano chains, the Loa and Kea, have distinct sources…
Bio-Inspired Robot Can Jump 3 Feet High, Then Right Itself
Robots that can jump are nothing new, but Jianguo Zhao, a PhD student at Michigan State, has developed a robot that can not only jump…
Ravens Use Gestures To Find Partners
Ravens, like humans, just want to have fun. They do their survival thing and when the time is right, they seek out companionship for a…
‘Skin Bones’ Helped Large Dinosaurs Survive In Harsh Times
A new study suggests that sauropod dinosaurs had some special bones that gave them a boost during hard times. This boost came in the form…
Lightning Foundry: World’s Largest Tesla Coils To Research Lightning
Just what causes lightning? Amazingly we still do not know. We know what it is, just not why. There have been numerous experiments to study…
Crowdsourcing Experiment Aims To Decode Whale Song
The race is on to decode whale song and you can help. A global crowdsourcing experiment may finally be what is needed to unlock the…
Archaeologists Inch Closer to Understanding Stonehenge
What has long since been a mystery that has baffled archeologists and scientists alike, Stonehenge is starting to reveal some of its secrets. Archaeologists who…
Shock the Brain for Faster Learning
Maybe those 19th-century doctors were on to something when they used electroshock therapy as a treatment for a myriad of medical problems. New findings that…