Marieke Vos-Zweers

The Sinai Agama, Pseudotrapelus sinaitus, is a kind of agamid or dragon lizard, and is also known as the blue rock agamid.

Dream content has been recorded in a new study from Germany involving lucid dreamers—people who can become aware that they are dreaming and influence their own dreams.

Fourth graders have lower stress levels when experiencing peer exclusion if they have good friends, according to new research from the Netherlands.

From 6:02 a.m to 6:02 p.m. on Oct. 23 people the world over will commemorate Avogadro’s Number, or simply a “mole” if you prefer.

Forests and grasslands can abruptly change to savanna and back once an environmental threshold is crossed, according to two new studies published in the journal Science on Oct. 14.

The fossil of a previously unknown kind of woolly rhino was recently uncovered way up in the Himalayas. The animal was named Coelodonta thibetana, the Tibetan woolly rhino, and appears to have existed around 3.7 million years ago, before the Ice Age set in.

Crucial in the sustainability quest is the location of the farm.

In addition to mainstream breeding techniques, there is organic plant breeding. There is no genetic modification (GM) in organic breeding, but that’s not all to it.

Studies of oriental hornets have found that the insects harness solar power biologically.

A new species of small dinosaur has been discovered in China. Though only a partial skeleton, this unique dinosaur was found to have only a single digit on the hand.