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Ants from the genus Myrmoteras have developed jaws that close at speeds up to...
Credit: Steve ShattuckWhen your food moves fast, you’ve got to move faster. For a type of southeast Asian ant, it helps that your jaw is spring-loaded to snap shut on prey in a tiny fraction of the...
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Nineteen teams are competing for prize money and bragging rights over the...
Credit: QAI Publishing/UIG via Getty ImagesAccording to even the most optimistic of estimates, only about five percent of the world's ocean floor has been mapped with any degree of detail. Since...
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The early hominids were the first to invent an adhesive, and scientists now...
Credit: Xavier ROSSI/Gamma-Rapho via Getty ImagesNeanderthals — early members of the genus Homo from Europe and Asia — have had such a lowly standing on the human family tree that the very word...
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An increase of only 1 degree Celsius in ocean temperature led to a doubling...
Credit: Gail AshtonResearchers working in Antarctica found some species of marine life can double when water temperatures increase by only 1 or 2 degrees Celsius (1.8 or 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit),...
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Tiny plant molecules determine if a bee becomes a worker or a queen, and...
Credit: Denis Anderson, CSIRO/Wikimedia CommonsResearch during the past five years has shown that plants wield far more power over those who consume them than previously thought. For example, micro...
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Ancient black holes may have helped ultraviolet radiation escape from early...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechHow was light able to burst out of the gloom of the cosmic "dark ages," approximately 500 million years after the Big Bang? New research may provide insight into one of the...
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Contrary to decades of dietary advice, fat may not be the enemy as new...
Credit: Maximilian Stock Ltd./Getty ImagesIt’s hard to be a healthy eater. For decades, we’ve been told that fat — especially the saturated fat found in butter, meat, and fried foods — is the worst...
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SolarWindow Technologies says it can harvest energy from sunlight by applying...
Credit: SolarWindows TechnologiesA Maryland company has been moving slowly and steadily for 20 years toward a very ambitious goal — turning windows into transparent solar panels that harvest energy...
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A recent study reveals an increase in brain activity in regions associated...
Credit: Ashley Corbin-TeichNarcissists typically come off as egotistical, selfish, and obsessed with their looks — a package of characteristics that can make it difficult to sympathize with them. But...
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Tidal energy harnesses the natural ebb and flow of the ocean, and the...
Credit: Atlantis ResourcesA company in Scotland on Thursday announced it set the world record for producing electricity from the natural undulation of the ocean in the latest advance for a clean power...
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The planets that may contain water include the three worlds in the habitable...
Credit: NASA/JPL-CatlechOne of the most exciting space stories so far this year came in February with the announcement that astronomers had discovered seven Earth-sized planets orbiting a relatively...
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Researchers introduced genetically modified bacteria into mice, which reduced...
Credit: The Rockefeller UniversityScience has long known that the human gastrointestinal tract operates as a kind of auxiliary central nervous system, communicating with other parts of the body...
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Nothing as big as the roughly 2.7-mile-wide asteroid 3122 Florence has ever...
Credit: Science Photo Library - ANDRZEJ WOJCICKIA mountain-size space rock cruised past Earth this morning (Sept. 1) in a record-breaking encounter that has long had scientists drooling. At 8:06 a.m....
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Waverly Labs is among a wave of companies developing wearable translator...
Credit: Waverly LabsNew high-tech earpieces that translate foreign languages in real time are among the latest Dick Tracy-esque gadgets to hit the market. Slated to go on sale before December, the...
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Petroleum-based plastics are nearly impossible to break down, and finding a...
Credit: Jason Langley/Getty ImagesPlastic waste continues to pose one of the largest threats to Earth’s oceans and wildlife, to the point where it’s even in the seafood on our plate. The US recycles...
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On Sept. 15, Cassini will complete its “Grand Finale” maneuvers and crash...
It might as well be the mission motto: "Saturn continues to surprise us." That's what Earl Maize, project manager for the Cassini mission at Saturn, said during a news conference on Aug. 29. He was...
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A voyage on a nuclear-powered icebreaker lays bare a region rapidly changing...
Credit: Kieran MulvaneyOn the seventh day, the world's most powerful ship ever to break through Arctic ice became stuck. On the bridge, the moment was met by a brief whoop of joy: acknowledgment of...
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Genetic variations linked to various health threats appear less frequently in...
Evolution is usually associated with long periods of time, such as the millions of years it took for our ancestors to walk on two legs, or for tiny birds to evolve from larger dinosaurs. A study...
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As it tricks other birds into raising its young, scientists have discovered...
Credit: Dan Kitwood/Getty ImagesThe common cuckoo, notorious for evading parental duty by hiding her eggs in the nests of other brooding birds, is even more devious than previously thought, scientists...
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NASA's Voyager 1 probe lifted off on Sept. 5, 1977, and later became the...
Credit: NASA/ESA/G. Bacon (STScI)NASA's Voyager 1 probe lifted off on Sept. 5, 1977, a few weeks after its twin, Voyager 2. Together, the two Voyager spacecraft performed an epic "Grand Tour" of the...
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