Month: June 2012

A synthetic compound long known to exhibit interesting transition properties may hold the key to…

Ravenous Evarcha culicivora jumping spiders — vampire spiders — have very specific tastes: they prefer…

Scientists have shown how global properties of networks become apparent in local characteristics. From infections…

Medical researchers report, for the first time, the positive effects of an active vaccine against…

British computer scientists are taking inspiration from slime to help them find ways to calculate…

A new study is expected to provide the first detailed information on how infectious diseases…

When a virgin male moth gets a whiff of female sex attractant, he’s quicker to…

The Cassini plasma spectrometer instrument (CAPS) aboard NASA’s Cassini spacecraft was turned off between Friday,…

A new video from NASA’s Dawn mission reveals the dappled, variegated surface of the giant…

Cockroaches, known for their stealth behavior, have a strategy up their sleeve only recently discovered…