Tuning the instrument: Spider webs as vibration transmission structures
Web-dwelling spiders have poor vision and rely almost exclusively on web vibrations for their 'view' of the world.
Credit: © uditha wickramanayaka / Flickr
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Study finds increased ocean acidification due to human activities
“The ocean has been the only true sink for anthropogenic emissions since the industrial revolution,” says MIT graduate student Sophie Chu, pictured here. “Right...
Light at the End of the Road
The bright light at the end of this country road is actually a remarkably close conjunction of two planets. After sunset on August 27...
50-year study pinpoints countries where women are doing the least housework
Women today do far less housework than in the 1960s. Credit: Flickr/Chiara Calabrese
Italian women consistently do the most housework. However, the researchers' analysis of...
Nano-lipid particles from edible ginger could improve drug delivery for colon cancer, study finds
Edible ginger-derived nano-lipids created from a specific population of ginger nanoparticles show promise for effectively targeting and delivering chemotherapeutic drugs used to treat colon...
Detailed age map shows how Milky Way came together
Credit: University of Notre Dame
Using colors to identify the approximate ages of more than 130,000 stars in the Milky Way’s halo, University of Notre...
Similarities found between how ancient and modern fish survived youth
An artist's depiction of what the Strud nursery ecosystem may have looked like, including the three different placoderm species discovered at the site. The...
Effect of summer melt on Greenland ice sheet
The image above, taken during a high-priority flight that IceBridge carried on Aug. 29, shows Helheim Glacier, with its characteristic wishbone-shaped channels, as seen...
WHO certifies Sri Lanka malaria-free
In a remarkable public health achievement, Sri Lanka was today certified by WHO on having eliminated malaria, a life-threatening disease which long affected the...
Consumers may search online for 30 days, but buy close to what they found...
Given the ease of online search, consumers can explore and discover hundreds of available items in any category. Retailers and advertisers are keen to...
Some islands started in diamond-bearing regions under continents, geochemists say
The authors of a new paper believe that raw materials for diamonds and certain unusual oceanic islands come from the same places. From right...
