The leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), one of Antarctica’s apex predators, kills penguins and smaller seals…
Archer fish have been observed to knock down prey with a precise jet of water…
Honeybees are well known for their sting, but scientists have discovered that they also have…
The filamentous bacteria Desulfobulbus can function as living power cables in order to transmit electrons…
Methane gas is escaping from the seabed sediments somewhere off the coast of North Carolina.…
In this color composite image of the RCW 120 nebula (above), an expanding bubble of…
A new synthetic molecule has been used to destroy the complexes that induce allergic responses,…
A new study from Yale University shows that eight beneficial gut bacteria common in honeybees…
A pioneering hepatitis E vaccine from China is now being deployed to fight a deadly…
NASA’s Curiosity rover continues its research on Mars. The latest images were taken by its…
Scientists have developed new methods that could result in the production of higher-performance computer chips…
Engineers at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Texas have been busy putting together a…
The Georgia Aquarium’s controversial plan to move 18 wild beluga whales into captivity has met…
A team of researchers took their scale models of space capsules to the Vehicle Assembly Building…
An international team of astronomers created a catalog of more than 84 million stars in…
A new study on the development of priapulids, known colloquially as penis worms, throws doubt…
A newly published paper from researchers at Yale University looks at the process of splicing…
Over a century after the Romans gave up control of what’s today Geneva, Switzerland, in…