50,000 eggs per female: why this Asian fish now worries wildlife officials
A bizarre arrival from overseas has American wildlife officials worried. The northern snakehead, a three-foot-long, snake-patterned fish with…
Freshwater shrimp kept for twenty hours at a caffeine concentration detected in highly polluted rivers spent less time in the dark than shrimp kept at ordinary background levels, and that shift was about the same size as the one caused by a parasite that manipulates them into being eaten by water birds
A tube half wrapped in black tape How much caffeine does it take to change the way a…
Study confirms Canada’s last epishelf lake is gone for good
image: Dr. Bernard Laval (right) and Dr. Jérémie Bonneau view more Credit: Jérémie Bonneau Canada’s last epishelf lake…
Polish prime minister: Poland to develop its own Starlink
WARSAW, Poland — Finnish space company ICEYE and Poland’s state-run defense giant PGZ have signed a letter of…
In 1870, goats were left on a tiny Seychelles island; 50 years later, conservationists had to eradicate them to save its native ecosystem |
A feral goat. Image Credit: Scott Bauer/Wikimedia commons The introduction of goats to Seychelles islands created a long-term…
Adult females of a millipede newly described from the Kazakh Altai have almost no second pair of legs, the subadult females still have them, and in both of the only two adult females collected the flattened leg bases block the genital opening
Characters new to the whole order The paper describing a new millipede from the Kazakh Altai names a…
People in the US: how have you coped during this summer of record heat? | Extreme heat
It’s been a record summer of heat in the US with rolling heat domes and July being the…
Strawberry Moon vs Harvest Moon: Why Every Full Moon Has a Different Name
The full moon names, such as Strawberry and Harvest Moon, serve as rich cultural symbols, highlighting the interplay…
Can You Draw a T. Rex Correctly?
Miller: First, the age of Mandrasuchus is incredible. This species evolved in North America in the immediate aftermath…
Scientists find a way to break pancreatic cancer’s protective shield
Researchers have identified a promising way to weaken one of pancreatic cancer’s key defenses against treatment. The approach…
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Lights Up Remote Island
Construction underway on a remote island nearly 400 kilometers west of India’s mainland could demonstrate, for the first…
The Moon is airless, radiation-drenched and can swing from about minus 173 to plus 127 degrees Celsius, yet NASA-led modelling found that some common Earth fungi and bacteria—from human skin, soil and damp bathrooms—could survive dormant for weeks or even months in cold, shaded niches near the lunar poles.
The Moon appears to offer Earth microbes nowhere to hide. It has almost no atmosphere, no stable liquid…