This robot can tell when you’re about to smile — and smile back
With its hairless silicone skin and blue complexion, Emo the robot looks more like a mechanical re-creation of the Blue…
This newfound longhorn beetle species is unusually fluffy
Meet Excastra albopilosa, a newly identified species of longhorn beetle that rocks an unusually fluffy white coat. Discovered in Australia,…
50 years ago, scientists wondered how birds find their way home
A world concealed from man but known to birds — Science News, April 13, 1974 What subtle sensory cues enable…
Scientists find a naturally occurring molecule that forms a fractal
Fractals are everywhere in nature, from river deltas to tree branches. These structures look similar from afar as when you…
In a first, these crab spiders appear to collaborate, creating camouflage
Some crab spiders have ditched webs for flowers. Masters of disguise, female Thomisus guangxicus spiders blend in with petals, which…
This marine alga is the first known eukaryote to pull nitrogen from air
It’s time to welcome a new type of cell to the club of living things that can harvest nitrogen from…
50 years ago, scientists found a lunar rock nearly as old as the moon
A rock from the moon’s early days — Science News, March 30, 1974 Taking its last shot at the prize, the Apollo…
How a sugar acid crucial for life could have formed in interstellar clouds
Researchers may have figured out how a crucial ingredient that cells need to produce energy could form in deep space.…
Teens are using an unregulated form of THC. Here’s what we know
Walk into a gas station in the United States, and you may see more than just boxes of cigarettes lining…
Immune cells’ intense reaction to the coronavirus may lead to pneumonia
The intense reaction of one of the lungs’ guardians against infection may help explain why COVID-19 can become severe. The…
