As if last month’s news that microplastics are easily detectable in human testicles wasn’t bad enough, a new study now further confirms an unfortunately logical conclusion to the...
Black widow spiders are among the world’s most venomous spiders, with a toxin that attacks the nervous system. While their bites can be treated with an antidote derived from other...
Since the available antivenoms are made from proteins derived from hoses, many patients bitten by black widows aren’t treated. The horse-derived substances are foreign to the human body...
Earth has endured multiple mass extinctions during its existence—the Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE), for example, decimated the planet’s marine ecosystems. But according to a...
After collecting 30 sections of stratified limestone from southern Italy’s Mercato San Severino region, researchers analyzed them for both their amount of uranium and their isotopic...
In terms of being hard-to-kill, few animals are more resilient than the tiny tardigrade. But the “water bear” isn’t the planet’s only nearly indestructible,...
“Even during the day, there are instances where smoke or fog could impair vision,” says Richard Seoane, Magna’s vice president of operations and business development in the...
The sentience questionFor humans, facial expressions are an important part of how we get our emotions across to others.Lebensechte SexpuppenMammals including dogs, cats, horses, mice, and pigs,...
This surprising fact was first discovered using instruments carried by astronauts who visited the moon with the Apollo program.Hybrid SexpuppenThe moon’s weak gravity means that the...
The first of these processes is micrometeorite impacts, where tiny pieces of space debris rain down with sufficient force to vaporize a small piece of the lunar surface and launch its component...
In total, the team gathered 89 hours of animal-borne video. The researchers identified six benthic habitats: macroalgae reef, macroalgae meadow, bare sand, sponge/sand, invertebrate reefs, and...
