Cocoons form to protect eggs and larvae, but they can also help preserve fossils for…
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory and spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W.M. Keck telescopes…
A 5-mile (8-kilometer) wide and 3,000-foot (900-meter) deep asteroid impact crater has been hidden near…
A new study has shown that elk become more fearful when people are around because…
Using radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a new analysis of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan,…
An international team has produced a rough draft of wheat’s DNA sequence. The draft identifies…
Scallops cough to expel feces and water from their central cavities. The friction between the…
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft entered a magnetic highway for charged particles, the final region before…
Many studies suggest that the behavioral effects of alcohol in humans can be modeled in…
Researchers have discovered one of the reasons why it may seem like older people fall…
Vega is situated in the constellation Lyra, 25 light-years away from Earth, and it is…
The global population of hammerhead sharks, a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, has…
Intense emotional experiences are more easily read in body language than in watching facial expressions.…
Comparing 20 of the latest climate models against 33 years of satellite data has led…
A new analysis of the mineral grains from the bottom of the Grand Canyon indicates…
The Kitti’s hog-nosed bat (Craseonycteris thonglongyai), sometimes referred to as the bumblebee bat due to…
This is a new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows galaxy ESO 318-13 and…
As the Large Hadron Collider has been unable to find any of the particles suggested…