This bird hasn’t been seen in 38 years. Its song may help track it down
How do you look for an animal you don’t even know exists anymore? The last sighting of the purple-winged ground…
One mountain in Brazil is home to a surprising number of these parasitic wasps
The tropics are teeming with life, tending to hold far more species than milder environments closer to the poles. But…
Some picky Australian mosquitoes may target frog nostrils for blood
An Australian mosquito species knows the best spot to drink its bloody meals: a frog’s nostril. The bloodsuckers are surprisingly…
Reindeer herders and scientists collaborate to understand Arctic warming
The spring 2014 annual reindeer festival in Yar-Sale, a rural town on the Yamal Peninsula in Western Siberia, was a…
A rare, extremely energetic cosmic ray has mysterious origins
The “Oh-My-God” particle has a new companion. In 1991, physicists spotted a particle from space that crashed into Earth with…
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Bereits seit dem 23. November 2023 freuen wir uns über zahlreiche Black Friday Angebote bei Amazon, Media Markt, Saturn und…
These bats are the only mammals known to mate more like birds
As the only mammals that can fly, bats are the oddballs of the mammalian world. But serotine bats stand out…
A brain-monitoring device may one day take the guesswork out of anesthesia
A new brain-monitoring device aims to be the Goldilocks of anesthesia delivery, dispensing drugs in just the right dose. No…
The first embryos from a mammal have now been grown in space
Mouse embryos can make it to an early stage of development in space. In an experiment conducted in 2021, a…
Why the Thanksgiving myth persists, according to science
Ask someone in the United States to name five events important to the country’s foundation and there’s a good chance…
