Western banded geckos don’t look like they’d win in a fight. Yet this unassuming predator dines on venomous scorpions, and a field study published in the March Biological… Read More...
Vintage illustration of Cattle Punching, 1950s. (Photo by Found Image Holdings/Corbis via Getty ... Images)
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acceleration: A change in the speed or direction of some object.artifact: Some human-made object (such as a pot or brick) that can be used as one gauge of a community’s culture or… Read More...
On Mars, the speed of sound depends on its pitch.
All sound travels slower through Mars’ air compared with Earth’s. But the higher-pitched clacks of a laser zapping rocks… Read More...
atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains positively charged protons and uncharged neutrons. The nucleus is orbited by a cloud… Read More...
A gaping hole in the bony frill of a Triceratops dubbed “Big John” may be a battle scar from one of his peers.
The frill that haloes the head of Triceratops is an iconic part… Read More...
New York City Mayor Eric Adams, seen here at a public event on April 7, announced on Sunday that he ... has tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus. (Photo by Alexi… Read More...
amino acids: Simple molecules that occur naturally in plant and animal tissues and that are the basic building blocks of proteins.average: (in science) A term for the arithmetic… Read More...
There’s something amiss with a mass.
A new measurement of the mass of an elementary particle, the W boson, has defied expectations. The result hints at a possible flaw in… Read More...
MSL Curiosity at work An extendable robotic arm enabled Curiosity to take this impressive selfie in ... front of Mont Mercou, an outcrop that forms part of Mount Sharp,… Read More...