A long-proboscid fly with an extra-long, tongue-like proboscis might seem to take extra-long to feed on a flower, but it actually has an advantage over its counterparts with average sized nectar-sipping mouth parts. It can ...
Plants & Animals
Dec 11, 2013
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This new Hubble image shows a peculiar galaxy known as NGC 660, located around 45 million light-years away from us.
Astronomy
Dec 11, 2013
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When asked to picture the shape of raindrops, many of us will imagine water looking like tears that fall from our eyes, or the stretched out drip from a leaky faucet. This popular misconception is often reinforced in weather ...
Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2013
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(Phys.org) —By now, social scientists once predicted, the gender gap in wages should have been as thin as a Roosevelt dime. More and more highly educated women were entering and staying in the workforce – many in lucrative ...
Social Sciences
Dec 11, 2013
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If there is any native forest in the vicinity, tree, fern and herbaceous species typical of these forests penetrate under the pine plantations without any need for action. That way it is possible, to a certain extent, for ...
Ecology
Dec 11, 2013
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Have you ever wondered what places on Earth experience the worst weather? Ed Darack has. His article, "The 10 Worst Weather Places in the World," featured in this month's issue of Weatherwise magazine attempts to name ...
Environment
Dec 11, 2013
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For some microbes, the motto for growth is not so much "every cell for itself," but rather, "all for one and one for all."
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 11, 2013
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For the first time, scientists at IBM Research have demonstrated a complex quantum mechanical phenomenon known as Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC), using a luminescent polymer (plastic) similar to the materials in light emitting ...
General Physics
Dec 11, 2013
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Although researchers have determined the ages of rocks from other planetary bodies, the actual experiments—like analyzing meteorites and moon rocks—have always been done on Earth. Now, for the first time, researchers ...
Space Exploration
Dec 11, 2013
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(Phys.org) —Figuring that if some is good, more must be better, researchers have been trying to pack more graphene, a supermaterial, into structural composites. Collaborative research led by University of Nebraska-Lincoln ...
Nanomaterials
Dec 11, 2013
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