A newly named Australian tree nicknamed the “zombie tree” cannot reproduce because of a deadly fungal disease. A recently identified tree species in Australia has been nicknamed “zombie” by scientists, who warn that urgent intervention…
Northwestern University engineers have developed the first modular robots with athletic intelligence. They can be combined and recombined in the wild, recover from injury and keep moving no matter what’s thrown at them.
In a famous fossil bed in Brazil, researchers have discovered a new treasure of three egg clutches. These provide new insights into semi-aquatic peirosaurid crocodyliforms and expand our understanding of their reproductive strategies.
Four years ago, NASA purposely smashed a spacecraft into a small asteroid to see if they could deflect it—a test to prove humanity could protect Earth from threatening space rocks.
On the high plateau of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru, the ground looks almost empty from eye level. A reddish skin of stones covers pale soil, broken only by low hills and dry gullies. Yet from the air, faint lines and curves emerge…
Giving birth to more than the average number of children or having no children at all has been linked to a shorter lifespan and faster biological aging in a recent study led by a team from the University of Helsinki in Finland.
Jeremy Gosselin and his team at the Geological Survey of Canada map soil rigidity near a baseball diamond in Haines Junction, Yukon.Jeremy Gosselin/Supplied
On the morning of Saturday, Dec. 6, Jan Dettmer was working on…
Choosing a Tinder profile picture may feel like a free, personal and creative act. But how true is that? A new study from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) shows that, far from being unique, most users follow one of a small number of…
