A new study shows that, in the last two thousand years, the strange feeding behavior of fish has been described by scientists in the 2010s in ancient texts about sea creatures. In 2011, Bryde’s fish were first seen in the Sea of Thailand on the surface of the water with their jaws open at various …
The so-called sharp-wing-glass insects have “worm systems” capable of ripping out drops of water very quickly. The glassy-winged lizard drinks a lot of water and therefore urinates a lot, excreting up to 300 times its body weight in urine every day. Instead of producing a constant flow of urine, shooters produce drops of urine in …
Sometimes we joke about the wheelbase review because, well, let’s be honest – as long as they’re holding the handlebars and driving, they’re usually pretty boring. Unless we’re talking about Mythos’ £250 IXO base, that is. Called “icksoh” and looking like something out of HR Giger’s catalog of bike parts, the IXO was manufactured through …
This Polystoechotes punctata or large lacewings were collected in Fayetteville, Arkansas in 2012 by Michael Skvarla, director of Penn State’s Insect Identification Lab. The specimen is the first of its kind recorded in eastern North America in over fifty years – and the first record of the species ever found in the state. Credit: Michael …
Scientists have proposed creating a computer made of millions of human brain cells that they say could outperform silicon-based devices while consuming more energy. An international team led by Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, published in the journal Frontiers in Science on Tuesday a detailed map of what they call “spy intelligence”. The device will …
Photo of cyanobacteria, Tolypothrix. Credit: Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 Landing elements (Rees) are a group of 17, which got their name because they usually occur by the million) in the hidden grasses of the ground. Because they are indispensable in modern technology such as light-emitting diodes, mobile phones, electromotors, turbines, hard disks, cameras, magnets …
For years, astronomers have watched a mysterious alien named X7 orbit the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, wondering where it came from. By analyzing 20 years worth of observations, a team of scientists led by University of California Los Angeles astronomer Anna Ciurlo discovered a remarkable change in the shape …
By David L. Chandler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology February 27, 2023 Researchers have discovered a new and efficient way to remove carbon dioxide from the ocean. It can be carried out by ships that will process the sea water during the voyage, or in offshore drilling sites or fish farms. Credit: Courtesy of the researchers …
To call Venus the world’s football would be an understatement. It is very similar to Earth – and yet at the same time as unlike Earth as one would expect an Earth-like world to be. One of these variations is the Venusian lithosphere – the Earth’s hard, outer shell. On Earth, the lithosphere splits and …
An artist’s impression of a giant hole seen in the center of a distant galaxy. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech New Discovery Shines Light on Supermassive Black Holes Astronomers from the University of Texas and the University of Arizona have discovered a rapidly growing hole in one of the largest galaxies known in the early universe. Discovery of …