Darcin in Mice Urine Attracts Other Mice
Mice seem to be addicted to the scent of urine and repeatedly go back to spots where they found the excretions. Researchers have discovered that…
The Amazon Rainforest Could Be Drying Out
In the past few years, the Amazon rainforest in Peru’s Ucayali region has been hit by two severe droughts, one in 2005 and another in…
Pitcher Plant’s Ingenious Way of Trapping Ants
The carnivorous pitcher plant lures insects to their doom with drops of nectar. South American pitcher plants have developed an ingenious insect-trapping mechanism to keep…
Garbled Text Messages Could Indicate Stroke
Dystextia is when a person sends garbled messages, it could simply be that the auto-correct is turned off or that there is something else is…
Flying Squirrels Can Adjust Speed and Flight Dynamically
Flying squirrels, a tribe of 44 species of the family Sciuridae, might look reckless as they fling themselves through the air, but scientists have reported…
British Team Fails to Reach Lake Ellsworth
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) arrived in western Antarctica earlier in December, preparing for their anticipated mission to drill into Lake Ellsworth, a subglacial lake….
Vanadium-Sapphire Device Absorbs 99.75% of Infrared Light
Using a 180-nanometer-thick layer of vanadium dioxide on top of a sheet of sapphire, researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences have…
BubR1 Protein Could Fight Cancer & Aging
Scientists have discovered a protein that seems to protect animals from cancer and other deficiencies of old age, with no downsides. The research on protein…
Super-Tiger Helps Explore Cosmic Rays
It has been roughly 100 years since cosmic rays first became an object of curiosity to the science world, but now scientists are finally close…
SpaceX Grasshopper Is First Reusable Rocket
SpaceX’s ground-breaking rocket, the Grasshopper, is still in development, but it’s designed to be reusable, meaning that it takes off and lands vertically. The rocket…
X-Rays Reveal More of Fossil Record
Soft tissues, like skin and feathers, aren’t usually part of the fossil record, but a new technique has found a way to bring some of…
Comb Jellies Have Proteins to Generate & Sense Light
Comb jellies, known as the phylum Ctenophora, live in marine waters worldwide. They have a distinctive feature in their groups of cilia, which they use…
New Treatments for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
A newly published study from Yale University scientists could lead to the development of new therapies aimed at restoring the signaling balance in the pulmonary…
Orangutans Learn Tool Use Through Social Observation
A new study concludes that even very young Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) start forming ideas about their world, and how and when to use certain…
Cloud Forest Trees Depend on Fog
Trees in Costa Rica, as well as a number of plant species, in the tropical cloud forests quench their thirst by directly ingesting fog droplets…
Periodical Cicadas Manipulate the Populations of Predatory Birds
Periodical cicadas emerge in North America every 13 or 17 years. Scientists think that the cicadas’ cycles are timed to “engineer” the number of predatory…
UW-Madison Researchers Help Explain the Scarcity of Anti-Matter
The Daya Bay Neutrino experiment, recognized by Science magazine as a runner-up for the breakthrough of the year, is helping physicists explain why the universe…
Scientists Challenge Pulsar ‘Glitch’ Theory
Using a mathematical model, in conjunction with data from radio telescopes and recent results from nuclear physics theory, researchers at the University of Southampton challenge…
