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Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.

Scientists have been looking at DNA to store all types of data — not just biological, but also digital. Yet while DNA is a great storage material, it’s also quite fragile. Water or heat can damage it easily — unless…

Objective: Investigate how the size of a meteorite is related to the size of the crater it makes upon impact Areas of science: Astronomy Difficulty: Easy beginner Time required: Very Short (≤ 1 day) Prerequisites: None Material availability: Readily available…

Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That’s a problem for our ideas about the universe.

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound.

New photos of comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS appear to show a faint “anti-tail” pointing away in the wrong direction. The puzzling extra limb is the result of a rare illusion that is only possible when our planet is in a certain position.

The discovery of the WWII wreck solves an 81-year-old mystery about the submarine’s fate.

NASA just launched a spacecraft the size of a basketball court towards Jupiter’s moon Europa. Here’s what will happen over the next 10 years.

Although it isn’t clear what the X-37B is used for, its new maneuver would help it to evade detection and perform undetected low-passes over Earth.

Over her long career, Bonnie Buratti has seen the search for life in the solar system go from a joke to a flagship mission.