Why cats are crazy for catnip
There's a method to cats' madness over catnip A chemical compound in Nepeta cataria and Actinidia polygama -- better known as catnip and [...]
Glass Frogs Living Near Roaring Waterfalls Wave Hello To Attract Mates
Drowned out by waterfall sounds, glass frogs "wave" Waterfall in Ecuador (Rodrigo Buendia/AFP via Getty Images) Glass frogs in Ecuador wave their hands [...]
NASA’s KOOLest SCIence SPACE MISSIONS
This illustration shows NASA’s Dragonfly rotorcraft lander approaching a site on Saturn’s exotic moon Titan. Taking advantage of Titan’s dense atmosphere and low gravity, [...]
Too Much Meat During Ice Age Winters Gave Rise to Dogs
Leftovers may have brought humans and dogs together A study in Scientific Reports suggests dogs became a human's best friend thousands of years [...]
Lab Makes Jet Fuel From CO2
Scientists develop jet fuel from carbon dioxide (Pixabay) Oxford University researchers have found a way to make jet fuel from carbon dioxide in [...]
New Evidence COVID-19 Invades the Brain
Mouse study shows how SARS-CoV-2 affects brain A subunit of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein crossed the blood-brain barrier in mice and was taken [...]
Meteorites From the Beginning of the Solar System May Have Carried Water Quite Recently
Ancient meteorites may have had water not that long ago It wasn't that long ago that some of the oldest meteorites held water, [...]
Nutrients Lower Your Risk for Parkinson’s
Study: Vitamins C, E tied to lower Parkinson's risk A study in Neurology found that adults with high intake of vitamins C and [...]
Animals Needed Sleep Before They Even Had Brains
Sleep may have come before brains in animals A study of hydras, which are small creatures that live in freshwater environments and have [...]
Desalination Breakthrough Could Solve World’s Water Problem
Paper co-author Kaitlin Brickey, a Penn State graduate student in chemical engineering, used a scanning electron microscope to examine how dense pockets in [...]