Four new tarantula species have been discovered in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. While that is remarkable in ...

If we hope to one day communicate with alien species, it might help to understand the minds of the creatures who share our ...

It turns out that whoever named the great white shark must have been underneath one, looking up, when they did so: “The name ...

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

In Kenya, though, there’s one giraffe who doesn’t fit in with the others. Dazzlingly white and mysteriously unnamed, he’s the only known such creature in the world: a giraffe with the rare genetic ...

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C alifornian authorities are warning people to avoid the meat of wild pigs in Monterey County as something strange and deeply ...

This is not the only recent record-breaking event when it comes to quantum cat experiments. Last year, researchers successfully placed the heaviest macroscopic object in superposition. It was a ...

Technology such as IVF "has helped create more equitable opportunities for family formation" for millions, say researchers.

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However, the peaks are limited and very valuable real estate on the Moon, and there are not that many to go around. In a ...