Forest bats of the species Barbastella barbastellus use whispers to hunt down moths, according to researchers from the School of Biological Sciences of the University of Brystol (United Kingdom).
Scientists at the University of Bielefeld (Germany) have answered the question by creating an "artificial eye" that mimics the field of vision of a bee, allowing us to observe the world from the point of view of insects. The invention could change the way in the one that builds mobile robots and small flying vehicles, say their creators.
A team of biologists from Indonesia's Rapid Assessment Program (RAP) have discovered a frog with a 'retractable' nose like Pinocchio's and the world's smallest kangaroo, among other new species, in the Foja Mountains of New Guinea.
The discovery of a 95 million-year-old deposit of amber has allowed an international team of 20 scientists to identify some of the insects and plants that coexisted with dinosaurs in the Cretaceous. Based on the data, the researchers describe today in an article published in the journal PNAS what the ancient tropical forests could be like in present-day Ethiopia at the time of the great reptiles.
Bees see the world five times faster than humans, and can also choose between doing it in full color or in black and white depending on the circumstances, according to a new study from the University of London (UK).
An international team of 62 astronomers led by Hans Deeg, from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has discovered outside the Solar System the first planet similar in size to Jupiter and with relatively moderate temperatures that orbits a star similar to the Sun. Corot-9b, after being discovered by the CoRoT space satellite, the exoplanet is 1,500 light years from Earth, in the constellation of the Serpent. The discovery is published in the journal Nature.
In a piece of amber from Burma, scientists at the University of Oregon have found a strange insect that lived 100 million years ago and does not resemble any known species. They call it the unicorn fly (Cascoplecia insolitis).
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
