Tag: nature

Insects are both beneficial and disadvantageous to humans. They use a well-honed sense of smell to transmit diseases, destroy crops, and pollinate flowers. These tasks are complicated as natural odor ...

Randall Haas, an archaeologist at University of California, Davis, recalls the moment in 2018 when his team of researchers gathered around the excavated burial of an individual lain to rest ...

VIDEO: Spider-hunting wasp dragging a spider larger than herself across a sandy heath.

Credit: Public Domain A pair of Queen Mary University of London psychologists are reminding modern scholars of the work conducted by an accomplished pioneer of comparative animal intelligence study: Charles ...

An article in Nature lays out 10 bold predictions for a field whose extraordinary achievements are just the beginning of what could be possible Credit: M. R. Cole Getty Images ...

There’s no more classic Halloween image than a glowing jack-o’-lantern perched in a window or on a porch, setting a merrily macabre mood. For decades, carving a pumpkin has been ...

Researcher Shane Elipot releases ocean drifter. Credit: Shane Elipot, Ph.D. University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science researcher Shane Elipot proposes a new approach to monitoring ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A NASA spacecraft is stuffed with so much asteroid rubble from this week’s grab that it’s jammed open and precious particles are drifting away in ...

Home News Science & Astronomy An image of SOFIA preparing for takeoff. (Image: © NASA) NASA wants you to get excited about the moon — or more specifically, about a ...

In September, the United Nations released a report indicting world leaders for failing to halt biodiversity collapse. Despite setting ambitious targets in 2010 to protect endangered ecosystems, we’ve lost a ...