Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows. We have shown that some species of milkweed, the larva's food plants, can reduce parasite infection in the monarchs, says Jaap de Roode, the evolutionary biologist who led the study.
Researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham have located seventeen lost pyramids throughout Egypt after studying images produced by a state-of-the-art infrared technique that allowed them to clearly see the ruins underground.
An exquisitely feathered fossil unearthed in northeastern China shows a new dinosaur, named Changyuraptor yangi, which measures more than 4 feet long and -- like the Microraptor, which is less than half its size --flies with four wings.
Hummingbirds are the only birds that feed on sweet nectar, but like all other birds, they lack sweet-taste receptors on their palates and long tongues. So how did they evolve a taste for sugary food? Scientists have unraveled the mystery.
A time of 11 years, two months isn't much to brag about if you're running the Boston Marathon. It's pretty good if you're on Mars. NASA's "Opportunity" rover has finally traveled 26.2 miles from its landing site — the length of a standard marathon race — across the surface of Mars.
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Pets of the future, rejoice! Expensive and uncomfortable spay and neuter surgery could be a thing of the past— a simple shot in the haunches will do the job.
A university student has invented a bottle that turns humid air into a half liter of water every half hour.
A breakthrough design out of Egypt could dramatically cut the cost of purifying water—and make the process easy enough for individuals to do themselves.
Cleaning up plastic pollution may soon be as simple as feeding it to some hungry bugs now that science has learned how mealworms can thrive on a styrofoam diet.
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