In the past few years, the Amazon rainforest in Peru’s Ucayali region has been hit…
The carnivorous pitcher plant lures insects to their doom with drops of nectar. South American…
Dystextia is when a person sends garbled messages, it could simply be that the auto-correct…
Flying squirrels, a tribe of 44 species of the family Sciuridae, might look reckless as…
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) arrived in western Antarctica earlier in December, preparing for their…
Using a 180-nanometer-thick layer of vanadium dioxide on top of a sheet of sapphire, researchers…
Scientists have discovered a protein that seems to protect animals from cancer and other deficiencies…
It has been roughly 100 years since cosmic rays first became an object of curiosity…
SpaceX’s ground-breaking rocket, the Grasshopper, is still in development, but it’s designed to be reusable,…
Soft tissues, like skin and feathers, aren’t usually part of the fossil record, but a…
Comb jellies, known as the phylum Ctenophora, live in marine waters worldwide. They have a…
A newly published study from Yale University scientists could lead to the development of new…
A new study concludes that even very young Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii) start forming ideas…
Trees in Costa Rica, as well as a number of plant species, in the tropical…
Periodical cicadas emerge in North America every 13 or 17 years. Scientists think that the…
The Daya Bay Neutrino experiment, recognized by Science magazine as a runner-up for the breakthrough…
Using a mathematical model, in conjunction with data from radio telescopes and recent results from…
Megapiranha is an extinct genus of serrasalmid characin fish that lived 8 to 10 million…