Scientists discover how snails turn mucus into five different materials using calcium, collagen VI and changing protein levels
PC: By Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Snails may move slowly, but the mucus they produce is far more sophisticated than it looks. It has been revealed how grove snails can fine-tune this sticky substance for different purposes. Researchers identified…
Scientists tested spiders as living DNA traps; their stomach contents can reveal which insects and other animals are living around them
Wolf spider on white background. Image Credit: Philip N. Cohen/Wikipedia A study published in ‘Experimental and Applied Entomology’ has explored how spiders could tell what animals are living around them by examining traces of prey DNA left inside their…
Scientists used geothermal drill-hole temperatures in Oregon’s Cascades and found at least 81 cubic kilometres of water hidden in volcanic rock, nearly 3 times Lake Mead’s capacity
Oregon’s Cascade Range(Representative image by Canva) Beneath the forested slopes of Oregon’s Cascade Range, scientists have uncovered a vast, hidden reservoir of water locked inside volcanic rock. By analysing temperature data from geothermal drill…
Scientists use robots more than two kilometres beneath the Pacific to discover huge lava fields around an active underwater volcano
More than two kilometres beneath the surface of the Pacific, off the coast of Oregon, an active underwater volcano has been hiding one of the strangest landscapes ever mapped on the seafloor. Using robotic vehicles capable of withstanding crushing…
What drove Michigan AQI to 616? Scientists issue major climate warning, ‘There really isn’t any…’
Smoke originating from Canadian wildfires has the potential to travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometers, transforming a remote fire into a significant air-quality crisis. This threat was vividly demonstrated when wildfire smoke from Ontario…
Scientists reconstructed the face of ‘Conquest Man’, a 1,000-year-old skeleton buried just 13 years after the Norman Conquest
Facial Construction by Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University (Image: ) More than 1,000 years after his death, a man who lived through the upheaval of the Norman Conquest has been given a face. Known as “Conquest Man”, he was buried at St Peter’s…
Michigan’s AQI hit 616 after Ontario wildfire smoke crossed into the US; scientists warn a warming climate could make such pollution more common
Michigan’s AQI hit 616 after Ontario wildfire smoke crossed into the US (Image: AI Generated) Smoke from Canadian wildfires can travel hundreds or even thousands of kilometres, turning a distant fire into a serious air-quality emergency. That danger was…
Chimpanzees have been throwing rocks at the same trees for more than a decade; scientists are trying to solve the mystery
In the remote savanna-woodlands of Guinea-Bissau, scientists are investigating a strange chimpanzee behaviour that has persisted for more than a decade. Wild western chimpanzees repeatedly collect rocks and hurl them at the same trees, creating piles of…
In the 1600s, people in Osaka ate dozens of species of fish, mammals and plants; 400 years later scientists found the evidence trapped in their teeth
Four centuries ago, the people living in Osaka left behind an unlikely record of what they ate. It was not written in a cookbook or preserved in a market ledger, but in the hardened deposits that accumulated on their teeth. Scientists have now analysed…
Ancient Greek elites wore jewellery made from metal that fell from space; scientists identified meteorite iron in 3,000-year-old rings
Three ancient Greek rings that were likely made using meteoritic iron and other precious metals, PC: Journal Archaeological Science Long before iron smelting became widespread in Greece, some Bronze Age elites were already wearing jewellery made from…