A test model of the Perseverance rover, designed to explore the surface of Mars, sits in a garage at NASA’s Jet Propulsion ...
Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...
Far below the ocean’s surface, where sunlight disappears and pressure reaches crushing levels, some of the planet’s strangest life forms thrive. These deep-sea creatures have evolved in total darkness ...
There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a global hotbed of carnivorous species. Now, scientists have made a ...
The growing problem of invasive plants has ignited a buzzstorm of local and national efforts to get rid of our worst weedy offenders and stop new invaders from gaining a foothold. But one strategy ...
I'm not worried. The aliens will have almost 100 years of instructional videos to decode before they get to us. The most likely result being they turn around and go the other way. My fear is that they ...
Science fiction has long speculated about the possibility of first contact with an alien species from a distant world and how we might be able to communicate with them. But what if we simply don’t ...
Researchers discovered that living horsetails act like natural distillation towers, producing bizarre oxygen isotope signatures more extreme than anything previously recorded on Earth—sometimes ...
“All You Can Eat” is a column by Emerson Prentice ’29 that focuses on highlighting and educating readers about dining on campus by interviewing chefs, highlighting menus from various dining halls and ...
There’s little debate about the importance of eating more plant-based foods. These foods feed the microorganisms living in our gut, allowing for a host of health benefits, including fortifying the ...
I put a lot of stock in replay value. When I was a kid, my parents tolerated more than supported my love of video games, so I only got new titles for my birthday, Christmas, and during the weekends ...