A fluorescent calcium wave spreads through a plant after a leaf is cut off, travelling to other leaves and carrying…
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Sumatra tiger on the forest’s edge. Credit: UQ/Matthew Luskin Some of Asia’s largest animals, including tigers and elephants, are defying…
This screen grab from a viral Instagram video shows a 5-foot alligator corpse shortly after being pulled out from the…
The navigation strategy of NASA’s Curiosity rover means it has to stop frequently to check its position, but soon a…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new study led by Prof. Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of…
Cutting edge analyses are revealing that species of mammal are more numerous than we thought, with thousands more hiding in…
A representative long sprouting hair follicle generated from hair follicloids after an extended period of culture. Credit: Yokohama National University…
It’s dinosaur lore that pachycephalosaurs — bipedal, Cretaceous beasts with massively thick, domed skulls — forcefully butted heads like bighorn…
A solar fuel cell that produces carbon monoxide and hydrogen is light enough to float on water, which could help…
Midterm elections are almost here. Most of the conversation concerns Congress and governorships, but some of the most critical and…
A key challenge in urban environments is to limit noise pollution from cars and transport. Credit: Pexels via Pixabay Sound-diffracting…
Saccorhytus coronarius lived around 500 million years ago and was thought to be a common ancestor of deuterostomes, making it…
The malignant brain tumour type medulloblastoma can become resistant to therapy which can cause relapse. Researchers at Uppsala University have…
Out of 210 people who had antibodies suggesting they had recently had the covid-19 omicron variant, more than half were…
Imagine this situation: A woman misses her period and worries she might be pregnant. She doesn’t want to be, so…
Hybrids of two common North American songbirds, the black-capped and mountain chickadee, are more likely to be found in places…
Two people in the U.K. are the first ever to receive transfusions of lab-grown red blood cells.The pair are healthy…
The textbook description of a proton says it contains three smaller particles – two up quarks and a down quark…
A new study from Finland, conducted by the University of Eastern Finland and Tampere University, measured particulate emissions from passenger…
Credit: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA For most of Australia’s human past sea levels were lower than they are today. Australia’s mainland…
Scope out these Canon 10x42L IS WP which come with image stabilization tech to help you keep your eyes on…
An incredible view of biological research has won the Alzheimer’s Society’s new competition, with a photo by Charlie Arber that…
[]Portability is the name of the game with the Olympus 8×25 WP II, but how do they stack up against…
A tattoo on the left hip bone of a mummified Egyptian woman buried at Deir el-Medina. (Image credit: Anne Austin/University…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An innovative programme to support children with reading difficulties helped them make significant progress when used…
From frankincense to cacao and vanilla, Scent: A natural history of fragrance shows how aromatic substances have helped shape human…
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, B. Reipurth, B. Nisini The lives of newborn stars are tempestuous, as this image of the…
Scientists have sequenced the oldest plant genome on record, and it comes from watermelon seeds chomped on by Stone Age…
In his new book, David Peña-Guzmán argues that animals that can dream have a sense of self, and therefore a…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A new study shows for the first time that wildfires burning in West Coast states can…