FIVE little monkeys jumping on the bed, One fell off and bumped his head. Mother called the doctor and the doctor said: 'No more jumping on the bed!' FOUR little monkeys jumping on the bed ...

Transposable elements, or "jumping genes", were first identified by Barbara McClintock more than 50 years ago. Why are transposons so common in eukaryotes, and exactly what do they do? In addition ...

How long are ski jumping skis? Jumping skis are widest and longest type of skis used in Winter Olympic sports. They are made of a light plastic material and designed for optimal aerodynamic flight.

The floor creaks, the music turns ominous and an uneasy quiet sets in. Then BAM! It’s the classic jump scare. This staple of horror movies, when done well, is instantly memorable. With Times ...

Ideally, jumpers land in the Telemark position: landing with one ski in front of the other, lunging forward. Video cameras record the distance of each jump and then the distance is translated into ...

Chilling video footage captured the moment a skydiving instructor ran off a cliff’s edge and plunged to his death. Jose de Alencar Lima Junior died while attempting a speed fly — an air sport ...

Hidden under the leaf litter, one tiny creature is easy to miss. It’s just a few millimeters long, and the animal is waiting for the perfect moment to reach its legs out from under a leaf and ...

But gone are the days of finding a friendly motorist with a set of jump leads to get going ... With just one USB socket and rated at a mere 2.5Ah (around a sixth of the biggest we tried ...

Austria won gold in the ski jumping team event Monday at the Beijing Olympics, with Slovenia earning silver and Germany taking the bronze medal. Marius Lindvik of Norway won Olympic gold in ski ...

For decades, scientists dismissed transposable elements, also known as transposons or “jumping genes”, as useless “junk DNA”. But are they really? The early speculations of both McClintock ...