Same-sex sexual behaviour can help primates to survive — and reproduce
In golden snub-nosed monkeys, sexual interactions between individuals of the same sex seem to fortify social bonds. Credit:…
ISS astronauts begin journey back to Earth in Nasa’s first ever medical evacuation | Space
Four crew members have left the International Space Station (ISS) and are heading back to Earth after a…
Very little plastic being recycled in California as state efforts falter
California touts itself as a leader on the problem of plastic garbage, but recent developments suggest otherwise. A…
Two New Exoplanets And The Need For New Habitable Zone Definitions
At the beginning of the exoplanet age, the goals were fairly simple. The first was to find as…
How tiny spiders are able to kill and eat snakes up to a metre long and an enormous 355 times their weight
The way food-chains usually work is that small things get eaten by bigger things, which in turn get…
NASA sends 4 astronauts back to Earth in first medical evacuation
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — An astronaut in need of doctors’ care departed the International Space Station with three…
Video: Golden Retriever Makes Friends With Squirrels
Most dogs treat a squirrel sighting like a high-stakes action movie, but Chili prefers a more diplomatic approach.…
3D-printed low-voltage-driven ciliary hydrogel microactuators
Single-layer microelectrodes fabrication Extended Data Fig. 2 illustrates the fabrication process of single-layer microelectrodes. Below are the step-by-step details:…
70 years of scientific error in a museum—bones attributed to a mammoth turn out to belong to a completely different animal
A museum spent 70 years storing a treasure, believing it was the remains of one of the last…
Unusual ‘ingredients’ helped stars form in a galaxy near the Milky Way
Some newly found stars in a small galaxy called Sextans A are forming without some of the usual…
US national hunts Kashmir Markhor in Chitral
Locals pictured with hunted Kashmiri Markhor. — Reporter An American trophy hunter has successfully hunted a Kashmir Markhor…
Coverage, Briefing Set for NASA’s Artemis II Moon Rocket Roll to Pad
NASA’s integrated SLS (Space Launch System) rocket and Orion spacecraft for the Artemis II mission is inching closer…