Pain is subjective, and although most stings are a real nuisance, there are very few that can stop you eye-wateringly in your tracks, cursing loudly, and gritting your teeth, says Richard Jones.
A sting is not just a passive jab…
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Observant visitors to Yellowstone National Park’s Norris Geyser Basin, the home of the park’s famous Steamboat Geyser and the hottest and most dynamic geyser basin in the park, might notice something new this year: a gaping hole filled with…
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While performing routine maintenance on the Large Lake Observatory’s R/V Blue Heron, a marine superintendent found a mysterious goo.
Microbial biologists at the University of Minnesota Duluth…
A new study, published in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal by Dr. Esther Jacobson-Tepfer, reveals an astonishing transformation in elk images in 12,000 years of Altai rock art in western Mongolia. Once drawn in realistic detail, elk gradually…
For the past few weeks, I have been wearing a necklace that was a gift from my mother, Juliet, on my wedding day.
She repurposed a brooch she herself had inherited into a pendant for me: a finely-wrought gold dragon holding a glowing red little…
The researchers revealed that Delaunay used multiple cobalt-based purple pigments thanks to experiments conducted on the French master’s works, for instance here with “Self-portrait” (winter 1905-1906) and “Landscape with…