A team of Brandon University (BU) researchers in Canada have found that waxworms, the caterpillar larvae of the greater wax moth, eats and biodegrades plastic.
The team has published their findings in biology journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The study found that waxworms ate polyethylene, a common form of...
After March 31, a bunch of amateur alien hunters will regain some personal computing power. The Berkeley SETI Research Center announced Monday that SETI@home, the two-decades-old crowdsourcing effort to hunt for signs of E.T. in radio telescope data using internet-connected computers, is shutting down at the end of the...
Researchers have discovered a huge snowman-shaped star with a unique atmospheric composition.
The enormous white dwarf star is known as WDJ0551+4135 and is thought to have resulted from the merger of two so-called white dwarf stars that often explode as powerful supernovas.
The study including these findings published Monday in the...
A tiny skull mistakenly attributed to an ancient feline has been re-identified as belonging to an ancestor to modern weasels, wolverines, minks, and otters.
Introducing Corumictis wolsani, the earliest known mustelid in North America, according to research published in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Mustelids are a diverse family...
A team of scientists believe they have discovered the first evidence of an alien protein from a meteorite that struck earth almost 30 years ago.
Meteors sowed seeds of life on earth
Space experts argue that meteorites containing hemolithin protein might have played a crucial role in sowing seeds of life...
Some of the extremely low-density, "cotton candy like" exoplanets called super-puffs may actually have rings, according to new research published in The Astronomical Journal by Carnegie's Anthony Piro and Caltech's Shreyas Vissapragada
Super-puffs are notable for having exceptionally large radii for their masses -- which would give them seemingly incredibly...
Researchers from the group of Hans Clevers at the Hubrecht Institute have developed a new genetic tool to label specific genes in human organoids, or mini organs. They used this new method, called CRISPR-HOT, to investigate how hepatocytes divide and how abnormal cells with too much DNA appear. By...
It covers almost three quarters of the Earth, but we know only a fraction of what lies beneath the ocean’s surface. Google’s parent company Alphabet has today launched a new initiative called Tidal aimed at changing that, with an overarching objective to use a better understanding of the ocean...
Our basic understanding of life revolves around the fact that every multi-cellular organism, including human beings, needs oxygen to live.
Nature built the perfect system for turning oxygen into energy. Breathing is so natural, in fact, most of the time we're not even aware that we're doing it.
There is, however,...
