When blasted with ultraviolet radiation, a newly discovered species of tardigrade protects itself by glowing blue. Tardigrades, microscopic animals also known as water bears or…
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While seeking answers to scientific questions, it’s worth sometimes taking a step back to appreciate the world’s exquisiteness. For developmental biologists Daniel Castranova, Bakary Samasa…
Japan’s white-spotted pufferfish are renowned for producing complex, ringed patterns in the sand. Now, 5,500 kilometers away in Australia, scientists have discovered what appear to…
Great AdaptationsKenneth CataniaPrinceton Univ., $27.95 Neurobiologist Kenneth Catania’s passion for scrutinizing odd animal adaptations all started with a creature with a 22-point star on its…
Sound has a speed limit. Under normal circumstances, its waves can travel no faster than about 36 kilometers per second, physicists propose October 9 in…
Warnings from the wells — Science News, October 10, 1970 Seismologists are studying ways to predict the occurrence of earthquakes…. One possibility … is to…
Imagine a police officer charging a man with disorderly conduct and issuing a citation for him to appear in court. The man stuffs the slip…
When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx arrived at near-Earth asteroid Bennu, scientists were dismayed to find a surface covered with hazardous-looking boulders. But new research suggests that those…
The retreat of North America’s ice sheets in the latter years of the last ice age may have begun with “catastrophic” losses of ice into…
Neandertal babies had chests shaped like short, deep barrels and spines that curved inward more than those of humans, a build that until now was…