The Xenomorphs from the Alien movie franchise were inspired by parasitoid wasps. That doesn't surprise Scott Egan, an evolutionary biologist at Rice University. He tells his students that if you can ...

Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of thermal treatments using different water temperatures and immersion times, as well as the application of eggshell coatings using ...

Case in point: Scientists from Tokyo University and Hokkaido University in Japan stumbled across some mysterious jet-black ...