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Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Male orb-weaving spiders fight less in female-dominated colonies

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 Orb-weaving spiders spin webs connected to each other in vast networks; within their colonies, individual spiders guard their own webs from...

Mysteriously bright flash is a black hole jet pointing straight toward Earth, astronomers say

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Caption:Astronomers identified an extremely bright black hole jet, halfway across the universe, pointing straight toward Earth. Illustration...

Physicists observe wormhole dynamics using a quantum computer

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Artwork depicting a quantum experiment that observes traversable wormhole behavior. Illustration Credit: inqnet/A. Mueller | Caltech Scienti...

Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star

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This artist’s impression illustrates how it might look when a star approaches too close to a black hole, where the star is squeezed by the i...

Tropical wildlife follow the same daily patterns worldwide

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An elephant faces a camera trap in one of millions of photos analyzed for a new study led by a Rice University visiting student. The study f...

Important discovery could help extinguish disease threat to koalas

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Retrovirus is more prevalent in New South Wales and Queensland koalas, compared to animals in Victoria and South Australia. Photo Credit: Jo...

To track disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers tag them with DNA barcodes

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 The researchers at a field site in Fort Collins, Colorado collecting mosquitoes for analysis. Photo Credit: Rebekah Kading/Colorado State U...

How giant-faced owls snag voles hidden in snow

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Video Credit: Sylvain Eckhardt Hovering over a target helps giant-faced Great Gray owls pinpoint prey hidden beneath as much as two feet of ...

Kibble-Zurek Mechanism for Nonequilibrium Phase Transitions

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The Kibble-Zurek (KZ) mechanism, confirmed experimentally only for equilibrium phase transitions, is also applicable for non-equilibrium pha...

Sex roles in the animal kingdom are driven by the ratio of females to males

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A female (left) and a male (right) red-fronted lemur with an infant (center). Photo Credit: Louise Peckre How picky should females and males...