A morning walk through East Lawn Cemetery in Ithaca, New York uncovered an immense colony of some 5.5 million subterranean bees. The discovery, which a Cornell University research team published in April in
The push to do so through chemical means is a response to the shortcomings of other strategies they’ve tried. Traditional mechanical recycling through shredding and grinding causes fibers to break down. The resulting
Folding a flat piece of paper into a torus — a shape with a hole in the middle — demands origami skill. That’s something mathematician Richard Evan Schwartz lacks. Yet he answered a
Blue Origin’s giant New Glenn rocket exploded on Thursday night during a hot-fire test on the launchpad, lighting up the skies around the launch site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. In a post on
Skip to content Signs of water plumes spewing from Jupiter’s icy moon Europa have vanished in a hydrogen haze. An analysis of nearly a decade of Hubble Space Telescope observations of Europa shows
Click here for our video on what happens when scientists release homing pigeons with disabled magnetic immune cells. Homing pigeons don’t rely on gut instinct to return to the roost. But a nearby
Pesky mosquitoes on the hunt for a blood meal may find the smell of a common repellent alluring rather than repulsive. Yellow fever mosquitoes (Aedes aegypti) exposed to the insect repellent DEET can learn
As the world struggles to contain the rapidly growing Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Ituri province, a vital network of research centers has been unable to help on the ground.
The first week of the French Open has yielded as many major upsets (two) as people collapsing on the court due to sweltering conditions. While temperatures in Europe are extremely hot for this
A gigantic underwater volcano became a massive chemistry experiment that could help researchers quantify the success of tactics designed to tackle climate change. In January 2022, the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Ha’apai volcano in the
