New Scientist

A lab accident flooded four sleeping bumblebee queens – but they survived underwater for days. Later experiments showed that the hibernating bees could make it through a week of inundation.

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Starfish feet are coordinated purely through mechanical loading, enabling the animals to bounce rhythmically along the seabed without a central nervous system

Ever feel like you're living in a hole? Newsflash: you are. It's called the "local hole" and its so vast it may break the laws of cosmology.

As the US grapples with an ongoing bird flu outbreak in dairy cattle, the country’s health agencies are ramping up surveillance efforts and working to develop a vaccine if needed

Commercial bowhead whaling ended in the early 20th century, but the industry’s lasting effects on the whales’ genetic diversity are leading to declines again

The genetic variant, which causes people to be insensitive to growth hormone, may also protect people from heart disease

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When alpacas mate, males deposit sperm directly into the uterus, a reproductive strategy not confirmed in any other mammals

The Large Hadron Collider is testing entanglement in a whole new energy range, probing the meaning of quantum theory – and the possibility that an even stranger reality lies beneath