Buzzkill? Male honeybees inject queens with blinding toxins during sex
They say love is blind, but if you're a queen honeybee it could mean true loss of sight.
New research finds male honeybees inject toxins...
Teeth offer vital clues about diet during the Great Irish Famine
Scientific analysis of dental calculus—plaque build-up—of the Famine's victims found evidence of corn (maize), oats, potato, wheat and milk foodstuffs.
Surprisingly, they also discovered egg...
Rocks at asteroid impact site record first day of dinosaur extinction
When the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slammed into the planet, the impact set wildfires, triggered tsunamis and blasted so much sulfur into...
Hard as a diamond? Scientists predict new forms of superhard carbon
Superhard materials can slice, drill and polish other objects. They also hold potential for creating scratch-resistant coatings that could help keep expensive equipment safe...
New models suggest Titan lakes are explosion craters
Using radar data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, recently published research presents a new scenario to explain why some methane-filled lakes on Saturn's moon Titan...
Researchers unearth ‘new’ extinction
A team of scientists has concluded that earth experienced a previously underestimated severe mass-extinction event, which occurred about 260 million years ago, raising the...
And then there was light: looking for the first stars in the Universe
Astronomers are closing in on a signal that has been travelling across the Universe for 12 billion years, bringing them nearer to understanding the...
All comets in the solar system might come from the same place
All comets might share their place of birth, new research says. For the first time ever, astronomer Christian Eistrup applied chemical models to fourteen...
Study of Dead Sea Scroll sheds light on a lost ancient parchment-making technology
First discovered in 1947 by Bedouin shepherds looking for a lost sheep, the ancient Hebrew texts known as the Dead Sea Scrolls are some...
Sum of three cubes for 42 finally solved—using real life planetary computer
Hot on the heels of the ground-breaking 'Sum-Of-Three-Cubes' solution for the number 33, a team led by the University of Bristol and Massachusetts Institute...
How to spin a disk around young protostars
How do stars and planets form? Scientists are now one step closer to pinning down the conditions for the formation of proto-stellar disks. Observations...
