Secrets of The Cuttlefish’s Uncanny Camouflage Abilities Revealed
Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish can change their skin’s colours, patterns, and textures in ways not seen anywhere else in the animal kingdom.
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Octopus, squid, and cuttlefish can change their skin’s colours, patterns, and textures in ways not seen anywhere else in the animal kingdom.
There are few living things on earth that can set our nerves more on edge than Cimex lectularius.
The issue is that present-day planet hunting tools just find the planets, but can’t really characterise what kind of stuff is on them.
They're already gearing up to try out the vaccine in the lab on human cells.
Scientists are using CRISPR to identify snippets of DNA that might signal a viral infections, cancer, or even defective genes.
These pinhead-sized microbots could deliver drugs directly inside you in the not-so-distant future.
If you’re lonely tonight, you can always consider parthenogenesis.
It’s not just poorly-conducted research making its way into journals, but blatantly false papers as well.
Should all go according to plan, the revenue gleaned from the Starlink project could be used to fund eventual missions to Mars.
The astronomers will continue to monitor the vortex with Hubble, and we’ll see where it goes from here.
It only took one day for someone to capitalise on the bizarre news that Apple’s £330 HomePod might wreck your wood furniture.
This cellular black box can store information about events in a cell’s life.
Though there isn’t formal academic research on the topic, it’s easy to generate reasons why it might be the case.
The car’s next close encounter with Earth will be in 2091, so either way we'll be waiting a while.
Between 1984 and 2012, confirmed kidney stone diagnoses doubled for men and quadrupled among women, and scientists are now trying to pinpoint the causes.
Naturally, the scientific community is not thrilled about the error.
