Only the Swarmanoid Survive
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The future of robotics may involve teams of small, cooperating droids.
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Jon-Paul Bingham puts his life on the line every week for the sake of science. One wrong move, and he could become the hapless victim of a snail attack that could kill him.
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Largely confined to a sprinkling of islands off South Africaâs tip, the African penguin, the continentâs only native penguin, are endangered.
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This much is known: At some point in Mars's past, at least one region of the planet was drenched in water. Ancient Mars provided a habitat suitable for life as we know it. What kind of organism might have lived there? And is life lying dormant there still, just waiting for things to warm up a bit?
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One of the basic parables of our time - and a staple of science fiction - is the tale of an alien organism that escapes into a new world and, because it has few natural enemies there, takes it over.
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Would cockroaches survive a nuclear holocaust that killed everything else? That question is being tested this week at the nearby Hanford nuclear reservation by a team from the "Mythbusters" show on the Discovery Channel, which expects to air the episode in about four months.
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By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Correspondent | October 15, 2004. The first vertebrate species to begin hopping and crawling on land 350 million years ago may be the first to die out, according to a study released
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Every October or November the reproductive swarming of an ocean worm known as the palolo is cause for a Samoan celebration. Fried in oil, baked into bread, or swallowed raw, worm sperm and eggs are a tasty treat.
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Scientists have discovered a "microworld" of life trapped in tiny drops of Italian amber. The ancient germs lived over 200 million years ago, when the first dinosaurs appeared.
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Is it possible to outrun evolution? Two new lizard-behavior studies look at why it's not always just the fittest that survive.
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The creature, named Junggarsuchus sloani, was a three-foot-long [one-meter-long] sphenosuchianâone of a class of small, slender, land-dwelling crocodilians that lived from about 230 million to 150 million years ago.
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The crash of the Genesis spacecraft is a loss for NASA and for science. Once again, the potential of robotic space exploration is called into question.
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The longest-lasting orbiter of another world falls silent. Scientists lose hope of reviving  NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, blaming a faulty solar panel for the loss. In Gear Factor.
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By Novack-Gottshall, Philip M  Abstract.- The process of evolution hinders our ability to make large-scale ecological comparisons-such as those encompassing marine biotas spanning the Phanerozoic-because the compared entities are taxonomically and morphologically dissimilar.
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SPACE.com / Insect bite marks in ancient leaf fossils are shedding new light on how nature bounced back after an asteroid impact killed off the dinosaurs and much of life on Earth 65 million years ago.
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By Arman Ahmad; Regina Lee; Phuah Ken Lin; Siti Nurbaiyah Nadzmi; Sean  KUANTAN: Sungai Galing is no more a source of life.  There are few fish in the waterway which used to be a favourite spot for fishermen.
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'Safety in numbers' for Amazonian legend Visitors to the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition will be greeted with the rather disagreeable news that the feared piranha - legendary for hanging around in ferocious packs dedicated to reducing their prey to skeletal remains in seconds - actually congregate for fear of themselves ending up on the menu.â¦