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New discoveries about insect nanostructure, like a mosquito’s eye, could help design improved water-repellent coatings. Credit: Ling Wang, Penn State Through research on insect surfaces, Penn State researchers have detailed a previously unidentified nanostructure that can be used to design stronger, more resistant water-repellent coatings. The results of this research …

This is the record yellow-leaved and corrugated eared mouse captured near the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Marcial Quiroga-Carmona / Universidad Austral de Chile The highest peaks in the world are not as desolate as scientists once thought. During a mountaineering expedition in …

An asteroid is set to approach our planet next week with NASA’s brand “potentially dangerous”. The heavenly rock, which has been called Asteroid 2020ND, is one and a half times larger than the London Eye. NASA scientists warn that the asteroid is flying into Earth’s orbit and will be just …

More than two dozen missing “cocoons” black holes They have been rediscovered after researchers looked at the X-ray maps of the sky. All of these singularities had been wrongly classified as distant galaxies or other types of black holes. The 28 objects are supermassive black holes, billions of times the …

Scientists have now discovered the secrets behind the magical disappearance of some of the fish that lurk in some of the deepest parts of the ocean. These “ultra black” fish are among the darkest creatures ever found, evolving to camouflage themselves against predators, even without sunlight. According to a study …