A dual symbiosis supports cuticle formation in wood-feeding beetles

Beetles usually rely on the help of bacterial partners to survive. These symbioses can have different…

Flies, worms poorly predict drugs' lifespan effects in mice, study indicates

If a drug extends the lifespan of worms or flies, is it likely to do the…

Researchers conduct whale fall studies in the South China Sea

In the late 1980s, scientists discovered that when a whale dies, its carcass sinks to the…

'BeerBots' could speed up the brewing process

Craft brewers are continuously upping the ante and coming up with innovative ways to make or…

Scientists detect seismic waves traveling through Martian core for the first time

Scientists observed seismic waves traveling through Mars’ core for the first time and confirmed model predictions…

New tools capture economic benefit of restoring urban streams

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has developed a suite of tools to estimate the total economic…

A blinking fish reveals clues to how our ancestors evolved from water to land

An unusual blinking fish, the mudskipper, spends much of the day out of the water and…

Generation of color-tunable high-performance LG laser beams via Janus OPO

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) modes are a type of light wave that can carry the external torque of…

Two species found 'nowhere else on the planet' documented in western N.C, museum says

A feisty looking crustacean in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains is a new species found nowhere…

Cultivating salad plants that can be grown on the Moon

NASA has finished its planning and is ready to go. Humans will soon be returning to…