Venus flytrap can count and uses skill to avoid false alarms
The carnivorous Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) can count, a skill it uses to avoid false alarms and conserve energy, a team of scientists from...
Warfare existed ten thousand years ago study finds
Warfare existed ten thousand years ago, during the late Stone Age among hunter-gatherers, a study has found, after skeletal remains of a group of...
Dinosaur Dragon Thief thrived 200 million years ago found in Wales
Dragon Thief (Dracoraptor), the earliest Jurassic dinosaur skeleton ever found, was discovered by fossil-hunting brothers Nick and Rob Hanigan after a beach fall at...
Ninth planet discovered in outer solar system by Caltech astronomers
A ninth planet, which has been discovered in the outer solar system with a mass ten times that of Earth and about four times...
2015 hottest year ever globally by far says NASA and NOAA
2015 was the hottest year ever globally over land and ocean surfaces while December broke the record too, says a new report issued by...
Largest prime number ever with over 20 million digits discovered
The largest prime number ever, with 22,338,618 digits, has been discovered by a computer at the University of Central Missouri in the United States,...
Fairy tales predate Bible and Roman and Greek mythology study shows
The fairy tales we tell our kids today predate the Bible, Roman and Greek mythology, as well as all modern European languages, say researchers from...
Five planets line up in sky first time since 2005
Five planets will line up in the sky for the first time since 2005. Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Venus and Mercury will appear together and...
Stephen Hawking warns of growing human race self destruction risk
Professor Stephen Hawking warns that there is a growing risk of self-destruction by the human race, caused by perhaps a genetically-engineered virus, climate change,...
Global fish catch drastically underreported by 32 billion kg annually
Global fish catch data is drastically unreported, in fact by 32 billion kg every year, which is more than the combined weight of all the people...