Earth & Climate

Strong against bloodsuckers by breeding

The varroa mite weakens bee colonies by draining bodily fluids from adults and larvae. © ARS-USDA Hope for the plagued beneficial insects: the resistance...

Photo worth seeing: morning star of the cosmos

© NASA/ESA/Brian Welch (JHU)/Dan Coe (STScI)/Alyssa Pagan (STScI) This point of light marked with an arrow is a real sensation. Because it comes from...

Does a bigger brain reduce your risk of extinction?

Species with larger brain sizes were more likely to survive the past 100,000 years, a team of Israeli and Italian researchers claims. ...

Global gradient in the blaze of colors

Researchers confirm the previous assumption that birds are, on average, most colorful at the equator and that the degree of colorfulness decreases with increasing...

Do animals not only have emotions, but also feelings?

Many biologists and psychologists shy away from attributing feelings to animals. Wrongly, say three scientists in an opinion piece. In everyday speech we...

Artificial intelligence invents 40,000 possible bioweapons in 6 hours

A salient detail: the researchers used artificially intelligent software that was basically developed to promote the discovery of new medicines. In the search...

A new eye for environmental research

The German environmental satellite EnMAP is soon to deliver data that can be used to investigate many questions relating to the environment and agriculture. Source:...

‘Some spiders use their webs as hearing aids’

It's the first evidence that some spiders outsource 'hearing' to their webs; a finding that could lead to the development of interesting...

Storm surges in Europe are increasing

Storm surge on the British coast. © Moorefam/ iStock Climate change is causing sea levels to rise and coastal regions around the world are...

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