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Six new species of bizarre, blood sucking ant has been identified in Madagascar, and the oddballs don't conform to the normal rules of ant behavior.

Controlling and bending light around an object so it appears invisible to the naked eye is the theory behind fictional invisibility cloaks.

Research in Germany has produced the first demonstration of harmonic mode-locking in a self-mode-locked VECSEL. Such devices have the potential to provide pulsed sources across the achievable spectral range of VECSELs, w...

In the latest animal-related offense to hit the Sunshine State, a man plead guilty to snatching 316 sea turtle eggs from Juno Beach on the Atlantic coast.

Despite their name and appearance, peanuts are not tree nuts like walnuts and pecans -- they're part of the legume family of plants, which includes beans, lentils, peas and other familiar foods.

Aspirin may help increase survival chances in colon cancer patients, new research suggests.

The Shelter Pet Project created an campaign focused on the adorable cats and dogs waiting to meet someone at the nations pet shelters.

Contrary to what some people think, pineapples don't grow on trees -- they grow out of the ground, from a leafy plant.

A massive canal bisecting Nicaragua would be an ecological disaster, says Jorge Huete-Pérez, who wants the world to intervene before it's too late     

The wolves of Wall Street have got climate change, but at a terrifying cost, reveals Windfall: The booming business of global warming by McKenzie Funk     

The sun emitted a massive X-class solar flare over the weekend and researchers believe a coronal mass ejection (CME) was associated with the event. The solar flare occurred on March 29 and researchers are tracking a poss...

The effects of climate change are currently being felt in all continents and across all oceans, exposing the Earth to severe environmental threats, a new report from the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...

Blood sugar, or glucose, is an important source of energy and provides nutrients to your body's organs, muscles and nervous system.

Using an acoustic metadevice that can influence the acoustic space and can control any of the ways in which waves travel, engineers have demonstrated, for the first time, that it is possible to dynamically alter the geom...

People organise a new language according to a logical hierarchy, not by learning which words go together – adding support to the idea of 'universal grammar'     

Our brains seem to have a circuit dedicated to grabbing stuff and putting it in our mouths, and it probably develops in the womb     

The facial muscles we use to express complex emotions - such as happily surprised or angrily disgusted - have been identified     

A study in The Journal of General Physiology provides new evidence that the ubiquitous sodium pump is more complex -- and more versatile -- than we thought.

We invest emotion and memories in our possessions, giving them deep meaning, but that doesn't necessarily make us happy - it may drive us slightly mad (full text available to subscribers)     

Researchers at the Division of Nanotechnology and Functional Materials, Uppsala University have developed a paper filter, which can remove virus particles with the efficiency matching that of the best industrial virus fi...

Physicists at New Zealand's University of Otago have pushed the frontiers of quantum technology by developing a steerable 'optical tweezers' unit that uses intense laser beams to precisely split minute clouds of ultracol...

An earthquake of magnitude 4.8 shook Yellowstone National Park early Sunday (March 30). The tremor was the largest to hit the famed reserve in 34 years, but that doesn't mean Yellowstone's sleeping supervolcano is gettin...