Animal borne cameras now give scientists unprecedented access into the visual world of animals, including the life and death struggles of hunters and their prey. For the first time, new research, pu… [+4505 chars]
Kiwis can look to the early morning skies this month and see five planets and eventually the moon in alignment. Stargazers should be able to spot the aligned planets with the naked eye or binoculars… [+1796 chars]
Science & Exploration07/06/2022189 views10 likes On 19 June 2022, Jupiters intriguing moon Europa will pass in front of a distant star, making that star appear to disappear for at least a minute… [+3666 chars]
Attractant food odor represses fmo-2 to limit longevity We developed an integrated single-copy mCherry reporter driven by the fmo-2 promoter to measure fmo-2 induction. The reporter is primarily exp… [+33129 chars]
Holes help make sponges and English muffins useful (and, in the case of the latter, delicious). Without holes, they wouldnt be flexible enough to bend into small crevices, or to sop up the perfect am… [+5205 chars]
Our senses are constantly inundating the brain with multifarious information. The brain must therefore continuously tune out distractions to focus on what matters. Understanding how organisms represe… [+6582 chars]
The subfossil jawbone of a polar bear that lived 115,000 to 130,000 years ago in Norways Svalbard archipelago. A genomic study includes an analysis of DNA extracted from a tooth attached to this jawb… [+10962 chars]
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Whats your most decadent home purchase? I dont mean expensive, necessarily more, a thing you purchased you can absolutely live without but you feel like it makes your day just a little more special… [+5890 chars]
NASA recently shared an eye-catching image of our neighbor galaxy, Andromeda, captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). Located about 2.5 million light-years from our Sun, Andromed… [+850 chars]
Like ants, termites and bees, some bacteria work together as a multicellular group. There is a strict division of labor in such colonies, to make the group more resilient to the outside world. Now re… [+3489 chars]
The Curiosity rover has found an outstanding rock formation piercing the alien landscape of Mars. Amongst the shallow sands and boulders of the Gale Crater rise several twisting towers of rock the sp… [+3315 chars]