New Deep Sea Hermit Crabs Have Super Weird Homes
The green-eyed hermit lives in a soft mass of sand and material created by colonies of sea anemones.
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The green-eyed hermit lives in a soft mass of sand and material created by colonies of sea anemones.
There’s a reason for their sugary diet.
Though this doesn’t mean Greenland is a toxic wasteland, nor that we should be panicking about all that pollution oozing back into the sea as ice caps melt.
The sciences are overwhelmingly hostile to women, and in astronomy, it’s doubly bad for women of colour.
If that sounds like a tight timeline, it's because it is.
What’s a strand of DNA but data?
Incredibly, the collector found the machine at a flea market in Bucharest—which suggests Romania may house other machines still waiting to be discovered.
How dare you go and be this beautiful, Jupiter.
National Geographic collected a series of incredible high-speed videos of the birds in flight.
Golf balls, some buildings, and even a few works of religious art imitate viruses. Not in a bad way, but in their beauty.
Crystal Ma creates colourful masterpieces that are as much about the creative process as they are about the finished product.
What is love, if not braving the tempest of existence by someone’s side?
Researchers have shown how fire ants, when confronted by a barrier, swarm together to create towers with their bodies, allowing the lucky few at the tip of the structure to escape.
What happens now, both to the iceberg and the ice shelf, is anyone’s guess.
Humanity is advancing rapidly towards a place where the news sounds an awful lot like science fiction.
Astronomers at the University of Cambridge have discovered a star that’s barely bigger than Saturn, making it the smallest stellar object known to science.
