How do mosquitoes find us? The question has spawned a multi-bazillion-dollar industry of gadgets, gizmos, and potions that work—for the people selling them. Now, a new Science Advances paper may ...

Recently, I was interviewing someone about natural dyes used during Revolutionary War times when she divulged a little-known fact. The British officers’ red coats were dyed with a different dye ...

Picture a baby dragonfly.

If it is a female, this is the stage when it hooks itself onto its victim – in most cases the common shore crab. When firmly ...

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The platypus is one of nature’s strangest mammals. This egg-laying animal sweats milk, hunts by sensing electrical signals, carries venomous spurs, and even glows under ultraviolet light. Discover the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. University of Queensland researchers studied peptides in the bodies of these wasps. Source: Dr Sam Robinson Scientists studying ...

Close-up of Pseudoproscopia latirostris, a unique grasshopper species with an elongated head. Native to South America, it uses its distinctive shape as camouflage in ...

Studying how honeybees process information may help humans communicate with aliens, according to a new thought experiment. Although the ancestors of honeybees and humans diverged in evolution more ...

Scarlett Howard currently has funding from the Australian Research Council and the Hermon Slade Foundation. Adrian Dyer receives funding from the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the buzzy sci-fi series is science fiction (obviously), Dr. Sward says there's plenty of real science peppered throughout.

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