The latest bit of brilliance from the field of robotics is a tiny micro-motor that can identify, trap, and transport individual cells. It's a s…
A study of 26 years' worth of wolf behavioral data, and an analysis of the blood of 229 wolves, shows that infection with the parasite Toxoplasm…
Scientists in Hong Kong have discovered tiny, cube-shaped box jellyfish in a brackish shrimp pond that are completely unknown to science. The dimin…
Immortality has been a dream of human beings since the dawn of time. Mankind´s fascination with cheating death is reflected in scientific records, my…
Scientists have recently identified a unique form of cell messaging occurring in the human brain that's not been seen before. Excitingly, the dis…
The most thorough study yet of a mysterious creature that lived 300 million years ago has ruled that it had no bones after all. Since its discovery n…
Icaronycteris gunnelli, paratype. Image credit: Rietbergen et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283505. Scientists have identified a new species of b…
The motion of a star as it makes its way through the galaxy has led to the discovery of a new alien world. Using data from the Gaia spacecraft that…
In a first, scientists have shown that they can send light through "slits" in time. The new experiment is a twist on a 220-year-old demons…
Scientists are still getting to grips with the ins and outs of strange materials known as time crystals; structures that buzz with movement for etern…
An extremely remote celestial body in a still young Universe, one-sixth the size of the present one. An object so dark that it is almost invisible,…
An artist’s impression of defect centers in diamond nanostructures. They can be used as quantum bits. A team of researchers from the Humboldt-Univers…
A synthetic analog of a black hole could tell us a thing or two about an elusive radiation theoretically emitted by the real thing. Using a chain o…
A scientist who has been living underwater for the last 30 days claims to have discovered a new species. Former naval officer Dr Joseph Dituri is att…
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wants to have a city of a million people on Mars by 2050. That may sound astronomically ambitious considering humans have never …
In new research, biologists at Tel Aviv University recorded ultrasonic sounds emitted by tomato and tobacco plants inside an acoustic chamber, and in…
We know there's water on the Moon, but questions remain about how it got there, where it's stored, and how it moves around. In a new study,…