Suffering For Science: Why I Have Insects Sting Me To Create A Pain Index
By studying stinging insects, we gain insight into our own lives and the societies we live in.
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By studying stinging insects, we gain insight into our own lives and the societies we live in.
Here’s the scoop on Jason-3, and how “sea level” is one of those little white lies you learned in school.
Beauty fads come and go, and eyebrow shaping is no exception. But what if there were a mathematical rule we could cite as hands-down the perfect shape?
Despite fears of over-watering, the crew coaxed the zinnias into a burst of colour in their zero-g vegetable garden.
It’s got nothing to do with naval sonar tests often linked to mass whale strandings; rather, it’s due to an unfortunate quirk of geography.
A new paper by French researchers concludes that it all comes down to the number of pages, their thickness, and the size of the overlap (contact) region between sheets.
It’s probably not aliens. Seriously guys, it’s very, very unlikely that it’s aliens. That doesn't mean it's sitting well with astronomers, though.
Some men produce sperm that are poor swimmers, a major cause of infertility. To help, researchers developed motorised cyborg “spermbots” that can be guided directly to an egg.
The fossil’s location suggests that the Jurassic extinction event that occurred over 200 million years ago may have been a long, gradual process, rather than a sudden, global snuffing out.
A rare condition that results in abnormally small heads might be down to mozzies.
The microscopic creature is said to be shocked at the advent of touchscreens and microwaveable burgers.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has picked its winners for the prestigious prize.
Controlling ferrofluid with magnets is all well and good – and stunning – but when you add the chemicals inside a glow stick to the mix, it becomes something so much more cool. See more >>
A clinical trial of a painkiller derived from cannabis is responsible for the "serious accident".
We’re all guilty of doing some pretty stupid and selfish things on the road from time to time. Here’s why it happens and what you need to do to keep your cool.
These massive balls of light burn fifty times brighter than the whole of our Milky Way.
