The discovery that bumblebee queens could shake it off and emerge unscathed after more than a week submerged in water stunned scientists back in 2024.
Now, a new paper reveals how they do it. Included in the bumblebee survival toolkit is the remarkable ability to extract oxygen from the water…
Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are still analyzing the data it left behind as it passed through our cosmic neighborhood. A new study, still under review, reveals a surprising detail: The comet is laden with alcohol.
Observations…
Have you ever switched audio language halfway through a movie? Although foreign languages always sound rapid-fire to untrained…
The second difference is the equal sign instead of less-than-or-equal. This means the frictional force is constant as long as the object is sliding—it doesn’t equal the applied force anymore. That means the net force isn’t zero. Push harder on the chair by running and the chair will speed…
Raccoons are such curious creatures that they have been shown to solve puzzles even without expecting any treats at the end, according to a new…
Most pandemic viruses that have jumped from animals to humans do not show signs of special adaptations to infect people, except the 1977…
An odd-looking coin used to pay for a bus fare in Leeds in the 1950s has been found to belong to an ancient civilisation from over 2,000 years…
