Researchers at the West Virginia Univerisity have discovered the 'Zombie cicadas'. These cicadas 'possessed' by a mind-controlling fungus drench spores that cause the same infection. Looking at this behaviour, the scientists nicknamed the cicadas as the "flying salt shakers of death".
Researchers have spotted patches of penguin poop in new high-resolution satellite images of Antarctica. This discovery has revealed the presence of small emperor penguin colonies that were previously overlooked.
Scientists and paleontologists have identified the first known cancer in a dinosaur. The researchers at McMaster University and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) have reported the aggressive malignant bone cancer--osteosarcoma in the dinosaur's bone.
Some researchers believed the event - which cooled the Earth by about 3 degrees Centigrade, a huge amount - was caused by an extraterrestrial impact with the Earth, such as a meteor collision.
Langsdorffia flowers, which is a parasitic plant, consists of flashy flowers and suckers. These screaming red flowers are intricate. Several parasitic plant experts call these flashy showpieces as Vampire plants.
Two NASA astronauts splashed down safely in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday for the first time in a commercially built and operated American crew spacecraft, returning from the International Space Station to complete a test flight that marks a new era in human spaceflight.
Over 300-year-old notion that the human sperm swim like a snake towards eggs has been proved false. According to a new study, sperms roll around like an otter.
The Anglerfish that are found in deep-sea, 'fuse' bodies with their partners when they mate. The smaller male anglerfish becomes permanently attached to the relatively gigantic female. This results in their tissue fusing together and the two animals establishing a common blood circulation system.
European Southern Observatory's (ESO) has captured a mesmerizing photo of a gas bubble that looks like a butterfly. The bubble-identified as NGC 2899-has been never been captured with such details before.
NASA's 5th Mars Mission: NASA is all set to launch the Mars 2020 Perseverance mission today (Thursday), from Florida's Cape Canaveral. For the launch of NASA's newest Mars rover, the car-sized robot - Perseverance, is all set to lift off towards the Red Planet.
NASA's rover Perseverance is on the verge liftoff. Perseverance will look for evidence of past microscopic life on Mars in an ancient lake. It will also gather some promising rock samples for future pickup.
A team of scientists from Japan and America has successfully revived tiny microbes trapped in a lifeless zone of the seabed for more than 100 million years. According to the scientists, they were looking to see whether microscopic life survives in the less-than-hospitable conditions beneath the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean.
NASA's Juno spacecraft has captured the first infrared images of the north pole of Jupiter's Ganymede, which is the largest moon in the solar system. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory division’s official Twitter profile shared Ganymede's picture and it is gorgeous.
NASA's Hubble telescope recently captured some mind-blowing images during summer in Saturn's northern hemisphere. In these latest snapshots, Saturn looks like a 'lord of rings'.
Asteroid 2020 ND - a huge asteroid is set to move past Earth today, NASA has said. Terming the asteroid as 'potentially dangerous', NASA has warned that the asteroid is travelling at a high speed of 48,000 kilometres per hour.
Scientists have discovered an active methane leak in the seabed of Antarctica. The southernmost continent contains as much as a quarter of Earth's marine methane and now this leak from the sea bed prompts major concern about the impact on the global climate crisis.
A new species of rare ants has been discovered in Goa's Netravali Wildlife Sanctuary. The new species has been named Vaibhav's Protanilla, after professor Vaibhav Chindarkar who is the head of the zoology department at the Government College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Sakhali.
Scientists have discovered as many as 37 volcanic structures on Venus that appear to be still active today. This discovery has refuted the fact that Venus is a dormant planet.
Hungarian scientists have accidentally created a new species of fish called sturddlefish in a lab by breeding two prehistoric endangered creatures.
According to a new study, the moon was formed from a magma ocean that took up to 200 million years to solidify. This points out to the fact that the moon finished forming about 4.425 billion years ago, or 100 million years later than previously thought.
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