Diabolical Ironclad Beetle: Design Secrets of Insect That Can Survive Getting Run Over by a Car
Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle. How the beetle survives could inspire the development of…
Getting run over by a car is not a near-death experience for the diabolical ironclad beetle. How the beetle survives could inspire the development of…
Imagine a mobile phone charger that doesn’t need a wireless or main power source. Or a pacemaker with inbuilt organic energy sources within the human…
Gene editing for the development of new treatments, and for studying disease as well as normal function in humans and other organisms, may advance more…
Certain oral antiseptics and mouthwashes may have the ability to inactivate human coronaviruses, according to a Penn State College of Medicine research study. The results…
Long-debated plate located in Northern Canada using 3D mapping technology. The existence of a tectonic plate called Resurrection has long been a topic of debate…
NASA’s Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft unfurled its robotic arm Tuesday, and in a first for the agency, briefly touched…
Drinking plenty of both green tea and coffee is linked to a lower risk of dying from any cause among people with type 2 diabetes,…
Scientists have re-investigated a sixty-year-old idea by the American physicist P.W. Anderson and provided new insights into the quantum world. Quantum physics explains how the…
As the coronavirus has affected more than 30 million people globally, researchers have increasingly focused on the extent to which airborne respiratory droplets carrying the…
Declines in shellfish species on rocky seashores match climate-driven changes. Two decades of data from a study of Maine’s Swan’s Island document a slow and…
A recent study from the University of Melbourne proposes a new theory for the origin of dark matter, helping experimentalists in Australia and abroad in…
New study provides a comprehensive reconstruction of the Permian-Triassic boundary event. Life on Earth has a long, but also an extremely turbulent history. On more…
Air pollution was significantly associated with an increased risk of hospital admissions for several neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, and other dementias, in…
McMaster University researchers who analyzed thousands of documents covering a 300-year span of plague outbreaks in London, England, have estimated that the disease spread four…
Our brains can’t always reliably evaluate experiences that unfold over time We tend to give disproportionate weight to the later part of an experience This…
The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business. University of Iowa astronomers have determined our galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot…
An international collaboration has provided the first insights into a new type of silk produced by the very unusual Australian basket-web spider, which uses it…
Mammals and birds today are warm-blooded, and this is often taken as the reason for their great success. University of Bristol paleontologist Professor Mike Benton identifies…