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Designs that mimic the glassy sponge’s skeletal structure are 20% stronger than traditional structures employed today in engineering.
Scientists have pushed technology to its limits after they managed to sequence the genome of a mammoth tooth that’s more than a million years old. Officially, this is the oldest DNA sequenced thus far — by a long shot. The million-year-old genome is finally upon us In 2013, scientists sequenced the genome for the previous […]
Nothing should have been alive -- yet life found a way.
More nonwhite or poor children study in closed schools compared to white students.
This doesn't mean that caffeine makes you dumb, though.
A metal plate thought to have once belonged to Earhart's plane was probed for hidden secrets using neutron beams.
Astronomers have proposed a novel theory that explains the demise of the dinosaurs.
It may have been formed by a meteor impact.
The facility was capable of brewing thousands of gallons of beer.
This bendable concrete has a number of appealing properties, chief among them the lower carbon footprint.
Nothing says 'I love you' like consuming your partners' body parts.
There’s a new gamer in town.
It's one of the oldest wind instruments.
As Bitcoin's price surges, so does its carbon footprint.
The researchers were inspired by Srinivasa Ramanujan who made 6,165 conjectures before he died at 32.
It's one of three different missions scheduled to arrive at Mars this month.
Meet Quick Claw McGraw.
It's the same mild shoulder pain you get from the flu shot or any other kind of vaccine.
Although this is a local decision, the implications and concerns are global.
To stack the odds in their favor, some sperm cells play dirty tricks on their competition.
The highly radioactive metal is very challenging to work with.
The Amazon founder has huge plans for space exploration. Now he actually has the time and money to make them happen.
Using computer models, scientists in Brazil explored what drives 'pandemic dreams'.
The hydrogen economy isn't dead after all.
Action simulations allow children with sight disabilities to 'walk' with their fingers.
This may be a game changer in astronomy.
People's language can change months before a breakup without them realizing it.
Don’t be fooled by its size, though. This tiny chameleon is surprisingly gifted.
Did you honestly expect a straightforward answer?
It's all due to the physics of the scattering of light.
Far from useless, the appendix is important for maintaining gut flora and supporting the immune system.
Staying mentally sharp at old age may require blocking a certain receptor in brain cells.
The test only takes 20 minutes.
Before humans minted coins, they used all sorts of odd objects as standardized money.
Males employ sexual coercion in order to quickly mate and flee the scene in one piece.
The dinosaur's cloaca helped it poop, have sex, and lay eggs.
Some cannabis molecules seem effective at destroying certain bacterial strains in the lab.
The same anti-aphrodisiac is produced by some plants to attract butterflies. Despite the contradiction, the chemical signaling seems to work both ways.
Researchers have found that a type of immune cell is more abundant in breastfed babies than formula-fed babies.
This mythical-looking dagger may have played a symbolic role in prehistoric Iberian society.
The scale of the Roman Empire during its heyday was unprecedented in the Ancient World.
A system of numerals that is written down like tic-tac-toe.
Dire wolves weren't the distant cousins of modern wolves as we've been led to believe all these years.
These underwater robots operate as a collective artificial intelligence.
Bioluminescence is much more common and important for marine life than most people think.
The giant black hole formed just 670 million years after the Big Bang.
‘Hello world… of bacteria?’
Cancer seems to have hijacked a survival mechanism employed by hibernating animals during times of high stress.
Is this the dawn of a new era of flexible mobile devices?
Everything you wanted to know about the new coronavirus vaccines.
