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This is a new turning point in astronomy: the ability to measure the distances between galaxies has improved, opening a new era in 'mapping' the structure of the Univers…
Giant galactic winds come from a galaxy called Wind.
If you've ever observed a colony of ants moving, you'll find they never get stuck in traffic. Ants are the masters of man in organizing collective traffic flows.
The name of 16-year-old Greta Thunberg was given to a beetle less than 1mm long, the color of honey, belonging to the species Ptiliidae, discovered in Kenya in the 1960s.
Like the national flag, the national anthem and the national flower are typical flowers, representing the cultural characteristics of the nation.
A new study has shown that plants have an amazingly complex response to rainfall.
Students at Ben Gurion University (southern Israel) have developed a biological method that uses genetically modified bacteria to kill mosquitoes.
In the past, many people intended to cut down an oak tree more than 200 years old, also known as a devil tree, but failed.
Over millions of years of Earth's formation and development, insects have invaded and existed everywhere. They gradually evolved with their hard shells and bones to prot…
Kidnapping ', which seems to exist only in humans, also appears in insects, particularly ants.
The name is also somewhat ... creepy.
The ability of the ants to survive for many years in a closed bunker surprised researchers.
Thanks to the method of dating by luminescence, the scientists found the time to plant ancient olive trees with trunk circumference up to 12.5 m.
Silently turning the prey into a living corpse, operating under its control, while silently ingesting the target's organs and eventually killing it for the purpose of re…
Botanist Brian du Preez stumbles across a cluster of legumes with unique purple flowers on an expedition to the Western Cape.