This unassuming octopus combines bacterial chemistry and evolutionary efficiency to create one of the most powerful defenses in the entire ocean. getty Blue octopus (genus) Hapaloclaena) It’s small enough to fit comfortably in the palm of your hand. They can be found floating unassumingly in shallow coastal waters, more likely to hide than hunt. However, … Read more
A new scientific paper is adding new fuel to one of space science’s most stubborn fantasies: a “warp drive” that could make distant stars feel like forever away. The research proposes a new way to create so-called warp bubbles, distorted regions of space-time that carry spacecraft, without the ships themselves breaking the cosmic speed limits. … Read more
Deer showing signs of CWD. Credit: Wikimedia Commons In 2022, Peter Larsen wakes up in the Guyana rainforest with a strange sensation in his leg. A University of Minnesota researcher sleeping in an outdoor house turned on his headlamp and found a vampire bat (the very animal he traveled to South America to study) sucking … Read more