Parasitic wasps use their venom to turn unsuspecting insects into incubators for their young, but it’s unclear how such a diverse, widespread group of insects evolved specialized poison to hijack their hosts. A new study of wasps’ venom-producing genes found they primarily code for something else, and that the insects lead a genetic double-life.
Dinosaurs’ faces might have been much more sensitive than previously thought, according to a University of Southampton study – helping them with everything from picking the flesh from bones to wooing potential mates.
In a ground-breaking study over ten years in the making, scientists have observed two supermassive black holes orbiting each other hundreds of millions of light years from Earth.
Oil-eating microbes ate most of the oil BP spilled into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, according to new research by scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The US used to be very hot on June 28, but temperatures on this date have plummeted over the last century. Two of the three coolest June 28th’s have occurred since 2004.
The German-language RT recently conducted an interview with retired climatologist Prof. Werner Kirstein concerning President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Accord and the state of climate “science” itself.
After an effort of more than 100 years and a collaboration involving over 1,000 scientists, we all celebrated. It was Feb. 11, 2016, and LIGO had just announced their first direct detection of gravitational waves.
Researchers published a new study making the shockingly apocalyptic claim that nearly one-fifth of the world’s population will be forced from their homes due to man-made global warming.
So there’s good reason to be excited about this new image of Orion’s second brightest and biggest star, Betelgeuse, taken by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array in Northern Chile. Not only is it one of the crispest images of a stellar surface yet, but it can tell scientists a lot about the massive star’s future.
We normally consider liquid water as disordered with the molecules rearranging on a short time scale around some average structure. Now, however, scientists at Stockholm University have discovered two phases of the liquid with large differences in structure and density.
Two Danish students have developed “SolarSack” for inexpensive and environmentally friendly water purification. The concept was tested in villages, refugee camps, and slums in East Africa where it will be marketed.
The New York Times has set a new standard of scientific misrepresentation in this front page title to the latest climate change consensus salvo from Justin Gillis. On the front page of the online edition of the NY Times for 26 June 2017, the title is given: “Sharp Rise in Levels of Earth-Scorching Carbon Dioxide”
One of the many conundrums facing climate alarmists — who predict that dangerous future global warming will result from increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 — is the existence of the aptly-named “warming hiatus.”
Ever wondered what happens when galaxies “collide?”
Now we know, thanks to a cool image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The image of “Arp 299,” which was released Monday, is a composite of visible light and X-ray light.
Scientists have reconstructed in detail the collapse of the Eurasian ice sheet at the end of the last ice age. The big melt wreaked havoc across the European continent, driving home the original Brexit 10,000 years ago.