Bearing Gifts Equals More Sex Even With Spiders
It looks like human males aren’t the only ones giving women cheap gifts to get sex. Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) wrap their gifts…
It looks like human males aren’t the only ones giving women cheap gifts to get sex. Male nursery web spiders (Pisaura mirabilis) wrap their gifts…
As if we needed any reminders, it just illustrates how the Hubble Space Telescope has been one of the most successful scientific endeavors ever undertaken…
Normally we hear about how bad nuclear plants are, but when was the last time you heard a story about how they save animals? One…
Huge. Massive. Gigantic. Monstrous. Ginormous. Words fail to describe two huge black holes that may be the largest ever measured. Supermassive black holes inhabit most…
Researchers from the University of California Riverside have rediscovered one of the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States; the Cockerell’s Bumblebee. This is…
A new species of horned dinosaur has been announced by an international team of scientists. It’s called Spinops sternbergorum and it lived about 76 million…
Naked Mole Rats are all teeth and skin. They are fairly ugly by our usual standards and as it turns out, so is their sperm,…
The 3D video below of the giant asteroid Vesta offers an amazing look at the object. Sort of a guided tour that might have come…
Good news today for fans of giant planets. Astronomers have found 18 new alien planets. They are all Jupiter-size gas giants that circle stars larger…
Italian toads can apparently sense earthquakes like the earthquake that struck L’Aquila on April 6th, 2009. We know this because Dr. Rachel Grant of the…
We’ve been printing documents and pictures for ages and lately, 3D printers have been helping us make all kinds of 3D objects like toys and…
When Australian river turtles lay their eggs in a hole in a sandy riverbank, there is no good reason that they would hatch at the…
Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all? Well, Qbo didn’t say that as it rolled up to a mirror and…
The internet is a great thing for folks who really like to buy stuff. You can find anything. Even NASA parts, including rockets. In July…
Whenever we send a spacecraft or rover to another planet NASA is very careful to make sure that it isn’t carrying biological contamination from Earth….
Don’t judge the brain of the Paper Wasp by its size. Their brains are less than a millionth the size of human brains; but they…
Three years ago, a frigid sea turtle was found in the icy waters of the North Sea. Survival did not look good at the time,…
For the past 500,000 years, Guppies have changed their color dramatically, but yet an orange patch on males has remained unchanged. It’s all about romance….