Have you ever wondered how it is that plants avoid pollinating themselves? Walnut trees have evolved to avoid this by separating their male and female
The Magyars – or Hungarians – were among the most feared warriors of the medieval world, and were particularly renowned for their deadly skill as
Early Cambrian fossils reveal how a small, shelled animal evolved to deal with attacks from a predator. The finds confirm a popular hypothesis, until now
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced new draft recommendations to improve the accuracy of pulse oximeters – devices used to estimate blood
The horseshoe crab is a living fossil that’s been scuttling along shorelines virtually unchanged for 445 million years, long before dinosaurs ever stomped across the
A team of physicists has outlined a possible way of sending probes deep into interstellar space within a reasonable timescale, using relativistic electron beams. Space
Our Moon is surprisingly massive compared to Earth, but that ratio is dwarfed if we consider Pluto and Charon. The latter is about 12 percent
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is the first light that was able to freely move across the Universe. Released around 400,000 years after the Big
January is a good month for interesting planetary alignment. You will have a lot going on in the night sky. For most of the month,
We modern humans love a long hot soak but linger too long and something a bit gross happens: the skin on your hands wrinkles up
Officials from the Louisiana Department of Health have announced the death of a patient hospitalized with H5N1 bird flu, the first such case in the
It’s anticipated to become brighter than last year’s star event, C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS), but will be similarly hard to spot against the glare of the
High levels of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) have been reported in parts of China. The news has sparked some concern, no doubt reminding people of a
After a re-emergence sparked a national emergency in Costa Rica in February of last year, New World Screwworm (NWS) fly larvae (Cochliomyia hominivorax) have once
It’s no secret that our gut microbiome can influence our physical and mental health in many ways, but what’s the best way to have a
Lunar samples collected by NASA astronauts during the Apollo Moon landings have a curious habit of being destroyed, stolen, or lost. In a bunch of
An oil spill in the Black Sea is believed to have resulted in the death of over 30 cetaceans, including several members of an endangered
