Arachnids eat as much animal food as all of the humans on Earth.
Spiders sit high in the pantheon of species that have an outsized terror-to-danger ratio.
In 1957 William Bristowe, a British…
Scientists disagree about whether bringing extinct species back from the dead will result in a net loss of global biodiversity.
“If you have the millions of dollars it would take to resurrect a…
The microscopic animals were found to produce a unique protein that coats the molecules in their cells in a glasslike substance.
“They can remain like that in a dry state for years, even decades, and when you put them back…
Long-hypothesized brain cells give bats their distance and angle to a location.
Bats have brain cells that keep track of their angle and distance to a target, researchers have discovered.
The neurons, called…
If the universe that hosts the simulation is limited, its computational resources will be limited as well.
“You would not expect simulated beings to reach the…
Late last year, an international team including researchers from the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University announced the discovery of more than 60…
Students baked a loaf of bread with engineered yeast that produces carotene, and it came out a lovely orange color.
The Synthetic Yeast GENOME Project is making major progress on the…
Stimulating certain areas of the animals’ brains can trigger predatory behaviours including biting and grabbing.
When certain parts of the rodents’ brains were stimulated with light, mice displayed a complex array of hunting activities.
The networks of genes in each animal is a bit like the network of neurons in our brains, which suggests they might be “learning” as they go.
Many people will be familiar with the idea that genes are passed from parent to…
Ancient rocks have yielded tiny fossil-like formations up to 4.2 billion years old, researchers reported. But some experts are skeptical.
Earth was a billion years old by then, and scientists have…