In the latest test of the tiny workings of bumblebee minds, scientists have taught the fuzzy insects to tell the difference ...

On Monday, NASA shared video captured by four video cameras as the Perseverance rover landed on Mars. Alan Chen, entry, descent, and landing lead, described the video, commenting on how cleanly the ...

In a surprising revelation, scientists have discovered that bumblebees can learn to read simple “Morse code.” This ...

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Morse code is a communication system developed by Samuel Morse, an American inventor, in the late 1830s. The code uses a combination of short and long pulses – dots and dashes, respectively – that ...

The first message sent by Morse code's dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844-175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...

Then-Cmdr. Jeremiah Denton was interviewed by a Japanese television reporter on May 2, 1966, as part of a propaganda campaign orchestrated by the North Vietnamese. During the interview, he blinked ...

Readers of a certain age will remember the payphone trick of letting the phone ring once and then hanging up to get your quarter back. This technique was used with a pre-planned call time to let ...

In a first-of-its-kind study, scientists found that bumblebees can tell the difference between short and long light flashes, ...