A modern reconstruction of the famous hoax photograph of the Loch Ness Monster, taken in 1934. (Image credit: Matt84 via Getty Images) The single-celled organism Lacrymaria olor has one of the most interesting ways of hunting. Its oval body is…
Termite Neocapritermes taracua. (Image courtesy of Dr. Ales Buček) Kamikaze termites in French Guiana have developed a unique defense strategy – they carry “backpacks” filled with a toxic liquid that they can detonate to poison their enemies. Now scientists have…
Mattia Cossettini, a nine-year-old boy, died of a brain aneurysm while on holiday with his family in Marsa Alam, Egypt, an autopsy has found. An autopsy has revealed that the nine-year-old boy who tragically died while on a family holiday…
The platform uses diffusion and autoregressive models to simulate every possible outcome in a given scenario and presents it as synthetic video content. (Image credit: Getty Images/VICTOR de SCHWANBERG/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY) LAS VEGAS — Scientists have developed a new “multiverse…
A microscopic image of a cannabis plant has won third place in the Nikon Small World photomicrography competition. (Image credit: Chris Romaine/Nikon Small World 2024) Close-up images of a cannabis plant, a spider's eye and a mouse's brain are among…
A parasitoid wasp larva emerges from a fruit fly. (Photo courtesy of Matthew Ballinger) Mississippi scientists have identified a previously unknown species of parasitoid wasp that develops inside the bodies of living adult fruit flies and then bursts out of…