Category: 7. Science

Venomous snakes must strike fast to sink their fangs in prey before they startle – as quickly as 60 milliseconds when hunting rodents.

New research has captured – in slow-motion footage – the differences in how venomous serpents bite their…

Gliese 251 is an early red dwarf star and the 74th closest star system to our Sun.

New research has uncovered the ancient origins of an urban mosquito species, Culex pipiens form molestus, also known as the ‘London Underground mosquito’ – disproving a long-held theory of when it first evolved.

Published today…

The experiment, led by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and featuring more than 20 research institutions, including Yale, began operations in 2017, after many years of planning and development.

CUORE will…

In the 1960s, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union signed a treaty banning nuclear weapons tests inside Earth’s atmosphere. Shortly thereafter, the U.S. Air Force launched the Vela satellites, 12 surveillance devices…

Researchers at Rice University have engineered living cells to use a 21st amino acid that illuminates protein changes in real time, providing a new method for observing changes within cells. The technique is effective in bacteria, human…

Scientists have long debated whether dinosaurs were in decline before an asteroid smacked the Earth 66 million years ago, causing mass extinction.

New research suggests dinosaur populations were still thriving in North America before the asteroid…