Archaeology
Aug 31, 2015
Meet Pentecopterus, a new predator from the prehistoric seas
You don't name a sea creature after an ancient Greek warship unless it's built like a predator.
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Plants & Animals
Aug 19, 2015
Biologists discover skydiving spiders in South American forests (w/ Video)
Arachnophobes fearful of spiders jumping, creeping or falling into their beds now have something new to worry about. Some spiders might also glide in through the window.
Plants & Animals
Aug 10, 2015
Underground gourmet: Selected terrestrial cave invertebrates and their meal preferences
Doubting whether terrestrial cave invertebrates feed on just anything they can find in the harsh food-wise environment underground, Dr. Jaroslav Smrz, from Charles University, Vinicna, and his international team conducted ...
Other
Aug 4, 2015
What happened to MH370? Prediction markets might give us the answer
Could the wisdom of crowds locate missing Flight MH370? Perhaps with a sufficient number of experts, each bringing a little knowledge of the ocean, currents, wreck salvage, and so forth, the lost aircraft could be found by ...
Ecology
Jul 2, 2015
Cities adapt to growing ranks of coyotes, cougars and other urban wildlife
Several times this spring, coyotes made national headlines when spotted roaming the streets of New York, from Manhattan to Queens.
Robotics
Jun 30, 2015
Toshiba's 'scorpion' robot will look into Fukushima reactor
A new robot that raises its tail like a scorpion is scheduled to look at melted nuclear fuel inside one of the three wrecked Fukushima reactors in Japan.
Astronomy
Jun 29, 2015
Hubble view of a nitrogen-rich nebula
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows a planetary nebula named NGC 6153, located about 4,000 light-years away in the southern constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion).
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2015
Study takes close look at formidable camel spider jaws
For the first time, researchers have created a visual atlas and dictionary of terms for the many strange features on the fearsome-looking jaws of a little known group of arachnids. Called camel spiders, baardskeerders [beard-cutters], ...
Archaeology
Jun 18, 2015
Five amazing extinct creatures that aren't dinosaurs
The release of Jurassic World has reignited our love for palaeontology. Many of us share a longing to understand the dinosaurs that roamed the Earth long before we arrived. But palaeontology is a discipline much broader than ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 4, 2015
10,000 years of rabbit bones hint how climate change may hit mammals
At times during the past 10,000 years, cottontails and hares reproduced like rabbits and their numbers surged when the El Niño weather pattern drenched the Pacific Coast with rain, according to a University of Utah analysis ...
