In November of 2005, the satellite Venus Express at a speed of about 18,000 miles per hour made the trip to the second planet from the sun in about 155 days. In the spirit of learning more about the ...

Unlike proactive predators in the animal kingdom, carnivorous plants like the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) must wait for their insect prey to literally step inside their "jaws" before they can ...

NY Times Science Writer, James Gorman, commented recently that a Venus Flytrap can count. Dr. Rainer Hedrich from the University of Würzburg, in Germany has demonstrated this counting mechanism in the ...