Rabbits the Size of Horses – Why Not?
Kyoto University examines the lack of size diversity in rabbits and hares. Next to cat videos, watching small and cuddly rabbits is probably one of…
Kyoto University examines the lack of size diversity in rabbits and hares. Next to cat videos, watching small and cuddly rabbits is probably one of…
Honeybee allogrooming behavior (upper left) and trophallaxis (feeding, center). Credit: Dr Michelina Pusceddu, University of Sassari Honeybees increase social distancing when their hive is under…
A wide variety of animals have tusks, from elephants and walruses to five-pound, guinea pig-looking critters called hyraxes. But one thing tusked animals have in…
About 25 years ago, astrophysicists noticed something very interesting about the Universe. The fact that it was in a state of expansion had been known…
Dogs extract words from continuous speech using similar computations and brain regions as humans do, a new study combining EEG and fMRI by researchers from…
An international team of researchers reports in Nature Physics on how light and electrons move in concert in the material when illuminated with infrared light….
A team of scientists, including experts from the University of Adelaide, suggest that reliance on modern irrigation technologies as a water-use efficiency strategy is a…
Study comparing 19th- and 21st-century Americans finds a half-hour decline in daily physical activity. Today, Americans have access to what feels like an endless amount…
A new study shows how the chemicals in an exoplanet’s atmosphere can, in some cases, reveal whether or not the temperature on its surface is…
The discovery demonstrates a practical method to overcome current challenges in the manufacture of indium gallium nitride (InGaN) LEDs with considerably higher indium concentration, through…
Inspired by a concept for discovering exoplanets with a giant space telescope, a team of researchers is developing holographic lenses that render visible and infrared…
January 1 – October 7, 2021 A colder than usual winter atmosphere over the Southern Hemisphere led to a deep and larger-than-average ozone hole in…
As humanity continues its exploration of the universe, the low-gravity environment of space presents unusual challenges for scientists and engineers. Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College…
Creepy Look At A Star Weaving A Dust Web Sometimes, the sudden demise of stars seems rather foreboding. This picture of the CW Leonis, a…
New findings from NASA’s Juno probe orbiting Jupiter provide a fuller picture of how the planet’s distinctive and colorful atmospheric features offer clues about the…
A mega-comet – potentially the largest ever discovered – is heading from the Oort Cloud towards our direction. Estimated to be 100–200 kilometers across, the…
Shielding those at highest risk from COVID-19 during the first wave of the pandemic may not have been as effective at protecting them from infection…
The center of the Milky Way is a mysterious place. Astronomers think there’s a supermassive black hole there, though it could be dark matter instead….