3+ hour, 33+ min ago   (735+ words) Your dog's saliva might reveal if they are destined for police work or the couch. Now, researchers are suggesting we bypass the human element entirely and go straight to the source code: the dog's biology. A new study published today…...

2+ day, 33+ min ago   (1152+ words) A newly discovered "giant" virus suggests our own cells" command centers might have viral origins. In the murky waters of Ushiku-numa, a freshwater pond just northeast of Tokyo, a microscopic drama has been playing out for eons, entirely unseen. Here,…...

2+ day, 47+ min ago   (740+ words) Long before we stepped ashore, New Zealand was being reshaped. Waitomo is a region on New Zealand famous for glittering glowworms that hang from caves. But deep inside a jagged crevice known as Moa Eggshell Cave, scientists just found something…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (636+ words) In museum drawers, scientists found a tiny spider hosting a species no one had seen before. The juvenile spider sat in a glass vials, one of thousands tucked away in the archives of Brazil's Atlantic Forest collections. To the naked…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (569+ words) We spend billions of dollars scanning the cosmos for signs of life that look nothing like us, yet we often ignore the fact that we share a planet with creatures that might as well be from the moons of Jupiter....

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (576+ words) They used four high-tech eyes to survive the Cambrian. Every mammal, every fish, every vertebrate (creatures that have a spine) has two eyes. It's been that way for millions and millions of years. But maybe it wasn't like that forever....

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (898+ words) So you thought great white sharks aren't awesome enough? A great white shark is a masterwork of evolutionary engineering. These beautiful predators glide effortlessly through the water, each slow, deliberate sweep of the powerful tail driving a body specialised for…...

6+ day, 8+ hour ago   (638+ words) Meet Darwin's bark spider. Its mating habits are even weirder than its engineering. Hollywood is always keen to feed us the cinematic clich" of massive, dust-covered spider webs stretching across deep jungle ruins. But in the forests of Madagascar, reality…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (720+ words) Ever wondered why you won't find kangaroos outside Australia? It all started with massive climate change millions of years ago. In the 19th century, Alfred Russel Wallace (famous for coming up with his own theory of evolution by natural selection, independent…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (604+ words) Home " Science " Oceanography The deep ocean is in trouble. When a whale dies and sinks, it's not a tragedy for the ocean " it's a miracle. These "whale falls" become organic skyscrapers, sparking a frantic gold rush in the deep sea....