Scientists create novel ‘liquid wire’ material inspired by spiders’ capture silk
Black and yellow garden spider (Argiope aurantia).
Credit: © Justin McGregor / Flickr
Why doesn't a spider's web sag in the wind or catapult flies back...
Bilingual babies learn languages faster than monolingual babies
Some parents may worry whether teaching their babies two languages concurrently will overburden their babies' minds, while some may wonder if babies get confused...
Physical activity associated with lower risk for many cancers
Higher levels of leisure-time physical activity were associated with lower risks for 13 types of cancers, according to a new study published online by...
Hunting for hidden life on worlds orbiting old, red stars
This graphic shows where a planet can be habitable and warm around our sun, as it ages over billions of years. Credit: Cornell University
All throughout...
ISS completes 100,000th orbit of Earth: mission control
An undated photo provided by NASA shows the International Space Station in orbit. On Monday, May 16, 2016, the International Space Station made its...
Scientists genetically engineered world’s first Zika virus infectious cDNA clone
A multidisciplinary team from The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston is the first in the world to genetically engineer a clone of...
Regular physical activity is ‘magic bullet’ for pandemics of obesity, cardiovascular disease
In an editorial published in the current issue of Cardiology, professors from the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University have...
New species of diatom discovered
Afrocymbella barkeri was identified by Belgian taxonomists Christine Cocquyt and Els Ryken in Lake Challa, a 92-metre deep crater lake at the foot of...
Ecological method for cleaning oil from lakes
This is Danil Vorobiev, doctor of biological sciences and director of biological institute near the lake. Credit: TSU
The oil cleansing method was developed by TSU...
Coal shipping threat to Great Barrier Reef
Dead coral smothered by coal. Credit: Kathryn Berry
Australian researchers have raised fresh concerns that a major shipping disaster could harm the Great Barrier Reef,...
Polluted dust can impact ocean life thousands of miles away
As iron is deposited from air pollution off the coast of East Asia, ocean currents carry the nutrient far and wide.
Credit: Georgia Institute of...
