Honeybees in man-made hives may have been suffering the cold unnecessarily for over a century because commercial hive designs are based on erroneous science, my new research shows.
When mother mice compete socially for mates in a promiscuous environment, their sons play hard - they also die young. More urinary pheromones attract more females but smelling sexier shortens their lives.
In the tropics, even the birds know how to relax better than those in the north. Tropical birds expend less energy at rest than do birds living in more northern climates, according to a study published online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Take a tip from tropical birds. Enjoy life a little.
Scientists have long puzzled over how iguanas, a group of lizards mostly found in the Americas, came to inhabit the isolated Pacific islands of Fiji and Tonga. For years, the leading explanation has been that progenitors of the island species must have rafted there, riding across the Pacific on a mat of vegetation or floating debris.
A non-mythological unicorn? So it seems. Unicorns have been mentioned throughout history, in mythology and in the works of The Bible and Pliny the Elder s Natural History.