The carnivorous plant Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) captures and digests small animals and absorbs nutrients with its characteristic insectivorous leaves. Six sensory hairs on the inner surface of each leaf sense a visiting prey and cause the trap to close. A single contact event with a sensory hair is...
Videos containing COVID-19 vaccine misinformation will be removed from YouTube, the platform announced today. Content about a vaccine that contradicts information from health experts or the World Health Organization won’t be permitted.
“A COVID-19 vaccine may be imminent, therefore we’re ensuring we have the right policies in place to be...
For decades, physicists have dreamed of discovering a material that could effortlessly convey electricity at everyday temperatures, a feat that would save gargantuan amounts of energy and revolutionize modern technology.
Writing in the journal Nature, a team of researchers announced on Wednesday that they have done just that. They have...
A new study explores how humans seem to be evolving in a very unexpected way — namely, by having a third artery in some of our forearms.
In an article published by the Journal of Anatomy, scientists from the University of Adelaide in Australia and Flinders University describe how human...
The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warned America’s governors on Tuesday that “small household gatherings” have been proved to spread the novel coronavirus, a fact that he urged the state executives to keep in mind as their citizens prepare for Thanksgiving.
“In the public square,...
A cosmonaut aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured stunning images of the record-setting Soyuz aircraft launch that brought three of his colleagues to the orbiting laboratory.
It was at 1.45 a.m. EDT on Wednesday when NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov were transported...
The oxygen supply system providing the Russian segment on board the International Space Station with air has failed, Agence France-Presse reports — the same Zvezda module that’s slowly leaking air into space.
Russian space corporation Roscosmos maintains that the crew is still in no danger. Repairs have reportedly already started.
“Nothing...
Venture Beyond Earth is the theme of this year's Jasper's Dark Sky Festival, Oct. 16 to 25.
It's the tenth anniversary of the hugely popular event.
Niki Wilson, a science journalist who has hosted the festival for seven years, said she's pleased to offer festival-goers an exciting program.
“Jasper National Park is...
Hey, remember Betelgeuse? It caused quite a kerfuffle both among astronomers and normal people in late 2019 and early 2020 when the star's brightness dropped precipitously. There was much speculation in social media that it might explode, but astronomers knew this was incredibly unlikely. What they were more concerned...
In case you hadn’t already heard: Space junk is becoming a real problem. There’s so much manmade trash floating around in Earth’s orbit that it’s actually posing a danger to future space missions and even ongoing programs like the International Space Station. It’s bad, and with companies like SpaceX...
