This Perverted Sex Act Prevents Male Widow Spiders From Getting Cannibalised
New research shows that some males are employing a rather unsettling strategy to prevent this from happening, and it’s a little bit twisted.
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New research shows that some males are employing a rather unsettling strategy to prevent this from happening, and it’s a little bit twisted.
If successful, his team will reissue the Voyager Golden Record as a three-LP box set. Ideally, in time for next year's 40th anniversary of the Voyager launch.
The disease kills over a million people every year—but as Kurzgesagt explains, our best bet to eradicate malaria is by building a new mosquito.
A new paper in ACS Infectious Diseases details a new technique that combines two existing food contamination detection methods into a single, fast diagnostic test.
31 nations officially signed onto the accord this morning, making it very likely that the deal will enter legal force this year.
As the world gets hotter, the places that we’re able to grow vital foods is moving.
Tough-as-nails tardigrades have be studied in closer detail than ever before to reveal the clever tricks up their microscopic sleeves.
The 2,000-year-old ancient Greek remains could potentially still yield DNA.
So do the five pints and a kebab on a Friday night, but it's all relative.
Experts say the results are vague and incomplete, and that talk of human head transplants are grossly premature.
This dramatic visualisation shows just how quickly the arctic ice is melting. Read More >>
A new device developed by scientists at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) can use these ubiquitous signals to detect our inner emotional states. Read More >>
Head orgasm alert.
Scientists have been studying the particular conditions that brought the iconic cliffs into existence.
Cats are becoming one of the biggest contributors to the sixth mass extinction.
A year after we spotted the surface's giant heart, we have an answer as to what put it there.
