CAN’T find a mate? Try parthenogenesis. The type of asexual reproduction may be part of an extreme survival strategy for…
Month: April 2010
Noah’s Ark found on Turkish mountain?
A group of Chinese and Turkish evangelical explorers said they believe they may have found Noah’s Ark — four thousand…
Mayor Donates Kidney to Facebook Friend
Politicians long ago discovered the uses of Facebook. East Haven Mayor April Capone Almon found something else there: a constituent…
Solar Dynamics Observatory returns first images
Nasa’s Solar Dynamics Observatory has provided an astonishing new vista on our turbulent star. The first public release of images…
Hard-to-See Sea Creatures Revealed
This leggy creature may look like an octopus, but it’s actually an immature, or larval, tube anemone (picture of an…
New Species Discovered in Borneo
A lungless frog (pictured above), a frog that flies and a slug that shoots love darts are among 123 new…
Roman-Style Mummy, Tombs Found
“Dressed” in Roman robes, a 2,000-year-old coffin stares back from a rare Egyptian grave in the Bahariya Oasis, about 225…
First Green Supersonic Jet Launches on Earth Day
When the Navy F/A-18 jet called the Green Hornet takes off over the Chesapeake Bay on Earth Day, it will…
11-Million-Year-Old Primate Discovered
A garbage dump in Catalonia, Spain, has just yielded an eleven-million-year-old new primate, according to the science news service SINC.…
Dreams ‘can help with learning’
HTML clipboard Napping after learning something new could help you commit it to memory – as long as you dream,…