Новости за 13.07.2016

The Amazon rainforest is awash in different types of trees — almost 12,000 species and counting, a new study finds.

Juno captured the photo — which shows Jupiter's famous Great Red Spot and the three big Jovian moons Europa, Ganymede and Io — with its visible-light JunoCam instrument on Sunday (July 10), less than a week after arriving at the giant planet.

How schizophrenia is related to personality, and where researchers are looking for treatment.

Biggest, Smallest, Strongest: Here are the six most interesting muscles in your body.

The movie "Finding Nemo" created a star and increased demand for the clownfish, a small fish that lives within the protecting tentacles of an anemone.

The huge array of toxins produced by venomous fish are a largely untapped potential for medicines, researchers say.

A volcano near Rome that, until recently, was thought to be extinct is entering a new eruptive phase.

A new demonic flower species looks like the devil and has clawed petals.

Women with families generally feel more rushed than men, largely because their male partners work long hours and leave household labor to them.

Despite its razor-sharp teeth and impressive bite force, Tyrannosaurus rex is largely mocked for its tiny arms. Now, a new finding shows that T. rex was in good company.

Tyrannosaurus rex wasn't the only meat-eating menace with teeny-tiny arms. Like its distant relative, T. rex, a newly identified dinosaur, named Gualicho shinyae, sported small arms and hands with two clawed fingers.

In an unusual move for a sitting president, Barack Obama has published a scholarly paper in a scientific journal.

A joke that went too far, experts say chastity belts were an early example of satire.

Like many animals that live within the dark and deep sea, lobsters are subject to myths. But one particular myth — that lobsters would be immortal were it not for fishermen and hungry predators — doesn't exactly hold water, biologists told Live Science.

Will Olympic athletes return to their home countries with more than a medal?

Artificial sweeteners: free pass for calories, or something more sinister?

Scientists found that modern-human footprints and the tracks left behind by Homo erectus are nearly indistinguishable.