Get Your Parents Out There With You. Just Once a Week Does It.
Running may lower premature death risk Running at least once a week may lower a person's risk of early death compared with those [...]
Skipping the Measles Vaccine Puts Children at Risk
Measles may reduce immunity against other illnesses Unvaccinated children who recovered from a measles infection had an 11% to 73% decline in immune [...]
Saving the Giant Panda from Extinction
Giant panda's cuteness may have averted extinction (Teh Eng Koon/AFP via Getty Images) The giant panda's reproductive and eating habits made the species [...]
Material Science: Why Nacre Is So Incredibly Tough
Researchers learn what makes mother-of-pearl so tough Mother-of-pearl, or nacre, is one of the toughest natural materials thanks to the way its surface [...]
Spider Webs Don’t Rot and Scientists Figured Out Why
Spider web resilience examined (Pixabay) Spider webs resist rotting because the bacteria that would boost that process isn't able to get to the [...]
Happy as a Crab That Just Finished a Maze
Crabs commit maze route to memory Small shore crabs can find their way through a maze with few or no errors weeks after [...]
The Super Blood Wolf Moon was Scary But Nothing Like What the Sun Can Do
Sun looks like jack-o'-lantern in NASA photo NASA has posted a 2014 photo of the sun in which it resembles a jack-o'-lantern on [...]
Whales Make Bubble “Nets” to Catch Prey
Whales observed making bubbles as net for prey Researchers used two different types of cameras to capture footage of humpback whales creating rings [...]
Huge Canyons on Mars’s Caused by 225mph Rocky Landslides and NOT Glaciers
3D image analysis links Mars' ridges to landslides Scientists who analyzed 3D images of a Mars region say the planet's ridges may have [...]
Australian Students to Participate in a Major Butterfly Project
Australians asked to help collect butterfly data (Pixabay) Australian researchers are enlisting the public to contribute to a database of the country's approximately [...]