This Is Quite Possibly the Ugliest Bug Ever Found Trapped in Amber
An ancient insect so strange—and so god awfully ugly—its discoverers had to create an entirely new scientific classification to catalogue it.
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An ancient insect so strange—and so god awfully ugly—its discoverers had to create an entirely new scientific classification to catalogue it.
a “Arab Courier Attacked by Lions” has stood in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum of Natural History for more than a century, and it's been discovered that it has a disturbing secret.
We pay our rightful respects to the brave stray cat who reached heights most of us never will.
Several dozen embryos sat in a lab that seemed straight out of a David Lynch film — part pig, part human.
It is the first time in history that cancer has been treated using genetically engineered immune cells from a donor.
Though NASA has confirmed 3,440 planets outside our solar system, no one has ever been able to confirm an exomoon. It could be because their planets are arsesholes.
Our measurements that seek to nail down the effects of dark energy don’t seem to be adding up.
It's got to be better than homeopathy
Created by US scientists, the AI is able to determine whether your mole is actually a skin cancer, from photos.
Accidentally giving students the equivalent of 300 cups of coffee is ok if you're really, really sorry about it.
So much cuteness.
Someone at Boeing has been on a serious Kubrick kick.
It’s a beautiful tale of graciousness and sacrifice.
Scientists have discovered a parasitic insect with a reproductive strategy straight out of an Alien movie.
A single collision before the time of the dinosaurs appears to have influenced the types of space rocks bombarding the Earth for hundreds of millions of years.
No More Doctor Nice Guy.
