A team of international scientists has tracked the love lives of koalas, uncovering some curious behaviours and finding that male koalas make their di...
The amount of heat flowing toward the base of the West Antarctic ice sheet from geothermal sources deep within the Earth is surprisingly high, accordi...
Male black widow spiders destroy large sections of the female's web during courtship and wrap it up in their own silk. New research published in A...
Traditional robots are made of components and rigid materials like you might see on an automotive assembly line - metal and hydraulic parts, harshly r...
Groundbreaking work at two Department of Energy national laboratories has confirmed plutonium's magnetism, which scientists have long theorized bu...
An international team led by researchers from the Evolutionary Studies Institute (ESI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, has obtai...
A new study led by a Kansas State University geneticist has shown that genomic signatures of adaptation in crop plants can help predict how crop varie...
In Borneo, some insectivorous bats have developed a rather intriguing relationship with carnivorous pitcher plants. The plants offer the bats a relati...
While the geographic ranges of many animals are expanding northward in response to climate change, those of North American and European bumblebee spec...
It is well known that large volcanic eruptions contribute to climate variability. However, quantifying these contributions has proven challenging due ...