Entomologists have discovered 24 new species of wasps that mummify caterpillars, several were named after famous people including Jimmy Fallon, John Stewart,...
NASA’s High Definition Earth Viewing experiment (HDEV) is now live-streaming views of our planet from space captured by HD cameras.
HDEV placed four...
Astronomers from the United States and China have discovered a hypervelocity star (HVS) that is the closest bright HVS and one of the three most massive...
Scientists from Alberta Geological Survey and the University of Alberta have discovered an 8 km wide bowl-shaped impact crater near Bow City in southern...
Astronomers led Dr Mark Vogelsberger of MIT/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have created the first realistic virtual Universe using a computer...
Entomologists from Switzerland led by Dr Rainer Neumeyer have described a new species of the wasp genus Polistes from Central Europe.
The Swiss paper wasp,...
Scientists from the Universidad de La República in Uruguay have described three new species of tarantulas from northern Argentina.
The newly discovered...
Paleontologists led by Dr Phil Manning of the University of Manchester have used a highly sensitive synchrotron-imaging technique to reveal ancient injuries...
An analysis of 253 nightmares and 431 bad dreams conducted by Canadian psychology researchers shows that nightmares have greater emotional impact than...
According to scientists led by Dr Richard Kramer from the University of California, a chemical ‘photoswitch’ named DENAQ may be a potential drug for...
A newly discovered species of spider, scientifically named Cebrennus rechenbergi, can flip like a gymnast.
The Moroccan flic-flac spider, Cebrennus rechenbergi....
Biologists led by Dr Somsak Panha from Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok have described a new genus and three new species of carnivorous land snails...
Deficiencies in hyaluronan, a substance that occurs naturally inside the body and attracts water molecules, can lead to spontaneous epileptic seizures,...
Physicists at GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt, Germany, have used calcium-ion beams and radioactive berkelium-249 to produce two...
Some species of bees and butterflies enjoy an occasional taste of crocodile tears, according to Dr Carlos de la Rosa from the La Selva Biological Station...
According to a team of biologists led by Dr Gregory Dick from the University of Michigan, at deep-sea hydrothermal vents in the western Pacific, previously...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Nelson Caldwell from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered a globular star cluster thrown out...
