50 years ago, engineers tried catching commercial planes in nets
A gigantic emergency arresting gear system, capable of […]
Oldest traces of a dysentery-causing parasite were found in ancient toilets
Giardia has plagued people for a long time. The parasit […]
These ants build tall nest hills to help show the way home
Some ants have figured out how to keep from getting los […]
Here’s the real story on jellyfish taking over the world
Jellyfish have gotten a bad rap. In recent years, conce […]
New camera on Palomar telescope will seek out supernovas, asteroids and more
A new eye on the variable sky just opened. The Zwicky T […]
Simulating the universe using Einstein’s theory of gravity may solve cosmic puzzles
If the universe were a soup, it would be more of a chun […]
Here’s yet more evidence that the mythical yeti was probably a bear
Campfire legends of massive, shaggy bipeds called yetis […]
50 years ago, folate deficiency was linked to birth defects
Pregnant women who do not have enough folic acid — a B […]
Collision illuminates the mysterious makeup of neutron stars
On astrophysicists’ charts of star stuff, there’s a sub […]
In a first, Galileo’s gravity experiment is re-created in space
Galileo’s most famous experiment has taken a trip to ou […]