Science

Spiderman has the ability to sling webs that allow him to travel through the city at breakneck speeds while sticking to walls. Now, scientists are exploring how to bring Spiderman’s “powers” to life by exploring the properties underlying spider glue’s humidity-responsive adhesion to create “smart adhesives.” Spiders are some of the most diverse species on our planet, with about 45,000 …

Koko, the famous gorilla known for her ability to speak with her trains via a modified form of sign language, fell in love with and became the adoptive mother of two kittens. Back in July, Koko got a box full of tiny kittens for her 44th birthday. She immediately fell in love with two kittens and adopted two of them …

Scientists at Cornell University have designed a new type of stretchable “foam” material that can be used in a lot of different applications — and possibly even to create new artificial hearts and prosthetic body parts. The polymer foam starts as a liquid that can be poured into a mold to create shapes, and because of the pathways for fluids, …

Over the next few days, one of the year’s most reliable meteor showers will fill the night sky with shooting stars.The Orionid meteor shower runs from October 17 to the25th, with the peak coming on the 21st! Some good news for viewing is that the moon will set just after midnight, making the sky much darker and therefore easier to …

The discovery of ancient teeth in a Chinese cave dating back to 80,000 – 120,000 years is forcing scientists to reanalyze the theory that ancient humans only started leaving Africa to poplate the world 60,000 years ago. “This is stunning, it’s major league,” Michael Petraglia, an archeologist at the University of Oxford, U.K., who was not involved in the research …

A bull shark learned the hard way to never mess with a school of hippos. The hippos seem to be aware of the shark’s presence and the first real confrontation occurs 32 seconds into the video, with a large hippo rearing back and upward, as if bitten or nudged by the shark.

Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot,” a swirling atmospheric storm that’s twice as wide as Earth and contains winds as fast as 400 mph, is continuing to shrink, according to scientists with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. These new images and videos reveal several new features as well: a unique “filament” inside the core of the spot, and a rare atmospheric wave …

Caffeine is the only way some people can start their morning, and as it turns out it could be the same for bees as well. Scientists say that honeybees find the energising drug so addictive that plants may be lacing their nectar with caffeine to boost their own flower pollination activity.

Researchers found methane plumes to be significantly more common at a critical depth where it was projected frozen deposits would start to melt due to rising ocean temperatures. The study, to appear in the journal Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, shows that of 168 bubble plumes observed within the past decade, a disproportionate number were seen at a critical depth for the …

The Kepler Space Telescope has spotted a star with peculiar characteristics that have some scientists speculating as to whether the anomalies could be the result of an extraterrestrial civilization. According to The Independent, it was caused by a cluster of objects around the star that astronomers are finding very difficult to explain. Scientists studying it found that the debris was …

This year’s winner of the Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Competition has been awarded to amateur photographer Don Gutoski for his incredible image ‘A tale of two foxes’ battling it out for survival in the subarctic climes of Cape Churchill, Canada. Kathy Moran, National Geographic magazine’s senior editor for natural history projects, said that the image gives a powerful message …