The mystery microbe seemingly straddles the line between living and non-living. It’s cellular, and can create its own ...

An animation using data from the European Space Agency (ESA) allows you to "listen" to Earth's magnetic field being disrupted ...

This whole class of astronomical objects has set off a search for causes, but even the most likely previous theories don’t ...

Pupping grounds, where mother sharks deliver and their babies start their lives, are unknown, despite the pups being ...

Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

As Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Paul Griffin explains in a recent piece for The Conversation, Stratus is ...

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Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

The third and final experiment involved a different set of two boxes. One box contained nothing, and the other contained male moths. Male moths can also emit ultrasonic sounds at a similar frequency ...

Unlike Dolní Věstonice 13, Ötzi can’t be said to display a Neanderthal-like thorax, although his barrel-chested body plan does suggest that he was specifically adapted to living in cold environments.

The researchers believe topographic features on the seafloor, like submarine canyons and gullies, are one of the many factors that shape the direction and strength of near-bed ocean currents. However, ...

By the 1920s, Brazil’s rubber trees had caught the eye of car manufacturer Henry Ford who had a bright idea: why pay the exorbitant costs of Asia’s growing rubber markets when he could simply buy a ...