Shake the boat Scientists caused a toy boat to float upside down at the bottom of a layer of levitating liquid, Maria Temming reported in…
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When food and space are scarce, competition can bring out the worst in monarch caterpillars. In the lab, researchers watched as itinerant caterpillars looking for…
Narcotics and plastic wires are spinning everywhere, even in the snow of Mount Everest. “We know the plastic is in the deep sea and is…
Pfizer is running to get approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, requesting emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on November 20th. But…
Fritillaria plants should be easy to detect. Bright green plants are often alone among the confused turtle that heads the Himalayan and Hengduan mountains in…
My classmates explored the treetops with binoculars and a thermal imaging monocular. I stared at the branches and leaves, pretending I knew what to look…
A new study shows that supercooled water is one of the only ones. Scientists have long suspected that water at freezing temperatures comes in two…
The days of Arecibo are done. After failing two support cables in recent months, the 305-meter-wide dish of the radio observatory is damaged unrepaired, the…
Effects of the Earth's magnetic field – Science News, November 21, 1970 The Earth's magnetic field has been frequently reversed at intervals of 1 to…
On two islands in the Indian Ocean, frogs are not what they used to be. Less than a century after its introduction by humans, the…