Some of these amphiphiles can form bilayers, trapping a droplet of liquid inside, even if the outside is also more of the ...

As Professor of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Paul Griffin explains in a recent piece for The Conversation, Stratus is ...

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Known to science as Dermatobia hominis, the human botfly can be found across Central and South America. A reasonably common ...

The researchers believe topographic features on the seafloor, like submarine canyons and gullies, are one of the many factors that shape the direction and strength of near-bed ocean currents. However, ...

Now, why this happens is a question we’re not quite sure about – but there may be a clue in the fact that we’re not alone.

There are more ways than we knew for the stratospheric polar vortex to get disrupted, shooting cold air southwards across ...

Unlike Dolní Věstonice 13, Ötzi can’t be said to display a Neanderthal-like thorax, although his barrel-chested body plan does suggest that he was specifically adapted to living in cold environments.

By the 1920s, Brazil’s rubber trees had caught the eye of car manufacturer Henry Ford who had a bright idea: why pay the exorbitant costs of Asia’s growing rubber markets when he could simply buy a ...

According to NASA, the Perseids is considered the best meteor shower of the year, largely due to the long streaks of color they leave as they head through our atmosphere, as well as their sheer ...

The product Is hundreds of times heavier than the Sun, sixty percent greater than the previous record-holder, and challenges ...

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