Ants Show Signs of Cognitive Sophistication
Tool use highlights ants' sophisticated brain power Ants have been observed using grains of sand as a tool to help collect water and [...]
A Toothless, Parrot-Like Dinosaur Thrived 69 Million Years Ago
Fossils of 68M-year-old beaked dinosaur discovered Fossils of a parrot-like dinosaur with a large beak and two fingers have been found in Mongolia [...]
Cargo Ship Carries a $23 Million Female-Friendly Toilet to ISS
NASA deploys $23M toilet into space Roughly four tons of equipment and supplies are on their way to the International Space Station following [...]
Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow? Two Ways to Fight Climate Change
Scientists examine how tree growth would affect climate Two recently published papers in Nature and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shed [...]
Horses Help in the Development of Emotionally Well-Adjusted Teenagers, Study Finds
Interacting with horses can ease teens' social anxiety High-school students in Hungary who participated in a four-year agricultural curriculum that included hands-on interaction [...]
Water on Mars: Discovery of Three Buried Lakes Intrigues Scientists
Possible buried lakes detected on Mars Observations by the Mars Express space probe suggest the presence of three subsurface lakes on the red [...]
Crows Possess Higher Intelligence Long Thought a Primarily Human Attribute
Crows are even smarter than we once thought Some birds, especially corvids such as crows, are even more highly intelligent than previously believed, [...]
Australian Stinging Trees Inject Scorpion-Like Venom. The Pain Lasts for Days
The most toxic of the stinging trees, gympie-gympie or Dendrocnide moroides. Edward These trees have a toxic sting The leaves of Australia's gympie-gympie trees can [...]
Playing Video Games in Childhood Improves Working Memory Years Later
Playing video games may have cognitive benefits Children who play video games may see cognitive benefits when they're older, a study in Frontiers [...]
Across 10 Million Stars, Not a Single Whisper of Alien Technology
No alien tech detected in sweep of Vela constellation A detailed search of the Vela constellation by the Murchison Widefield Array has come [...]