LiveScience.com - The male peacock's tail was a vexing problem for the father of evolutionary theory, Charles Darwin, who struggled to explain why the bird should have such a seemingly burdensome trait. Darwin finally struck upon the idea of sexual selectmore...
LiveScience.com - A man-sized grouper that trolls the tropical waters of the Eastern Pacific Ocean for octopuses and crabs has been identified as a new fish species after genetic tests.more...
LiveScience.com - Books are just as powerful as movies when it comes to their potential to prod our brains into such reactions as delight, pain and disgust, new research suggests.
In fact, reading any printed or electronic words, for instance, about sommore...
SPACE.com - Two
habitation modules emblazoned with the United Kingdom's Union Jack could launch to the International Space
Station (ISS) by 2011 under a new plan devised by British scientists and
engineers.more...