Researchers solved how Venus flytraps catch bugs without muscles. The plant actually softens its outer cell walls in seconds to release stored energy and snap shut. Even without a single muscle, the ...
A Dutch woman discovered 35 authentic Rembrandt etchings in her grandfather's collection, hidden away for a century and ...
A brass combination lock from a ship wrecked in Wales in 1583 has given up its four-letter code after a micro-CT scan at Cardiff University.
A small gold bear from the 4th-3rd century B.C. was found in a looted Saka mound in Almaty, with remains of perhaps seven ...
Students helped the Webb Telescope locate a rare interstellar comet, revealing record-high heavy hydrogen levels that prove ...
Scientists screened about 15,000 bacterial Rubisco variants, revealing promising changes and unexpected obstacles to ...
In 1991, NASA sent moon jellyfish into space aboard Columbia. Those formed in orbit showed abnormal pulsing after returning ...
Water near the Great Pacific Garbage Patch brightened in blue and green over 20 years, and microplastics are the likely cause ...
A century of records shows European pollinator decline is uneven. Nearly all wild bee species persist, but most have lost ...
Dozens of motorized cells that start vibrating at random merge into one slow pulse, forming a mechanical time crystal that ...
The average human genome holds about 5 million variants, and one to three of them are already labeled as causing a genetic disease.
Free software called oceandatr brings scattered ocean datasets together, helping marine scientists prepare maps and plan ...