Watching hummingbirds in slow motion has turned up new insights into their behavior – like how males use their tail feathers to “sing” to females.
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Holly Clark Coburn is a freelance editor and writer. She studied biology and art at a liberal arts school and received an MFA in creative writing.
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Blogs | Feb 10, 2012
Jumping spider eyes have special receptors for green light in their multi-layered retina, according to a new study.
Blogs | Nov 08, 2011
Researchers create a robot face — Mask-bot — animated by the beam of an internal projector.
Blogs | Sep 29, 2011
Mercury’s weak magnetic field provides little protection for our sun’s innermost planet from the fierce solar wind, a squall of charged particles from the sun.
Blogs | Jun 12, 2011
Study shows how two highly intelligent bird species use native talents to inform their decisions.
Blogs | Jun 08, 2011
Astrophysicists have scrutinized X-rays from accretion disks surrounding eight black holes and confirmed differences between black hole observation and theory.
Blogs | Jun 06, 2011
The Chilean volcanic eruption on Saturday, June 4, 2011 reached six miles up into the sky and sent a plume of ash toward Argentina.
FAQs | Jun 04, 2011
Not just any loud sound will shatter a glass. It has to be the right resonant frequency.
Blogs | May 22, 2011
The European Southern Observatory designated six Photo Ambassadors, who share their dazzling view with the world.
Blogs | May 01, 2011
An animation from the Planetary Habitability Laboratory shows Earth during the Cambrian Period, when land masses clustered in the southern hemisphere.
