Arguably the best example of this engineering marvel exists in modern-day Iran, where the technology was invented over 3,000 ...

Thus, it appears cats have an awareness that their bodies are a finite height, and assess short but wide holes to see if they ...

T he entire human genome – all 3 billion or so base pairs – has been stored on a tiny, 5D memory crystal built to last for ...

“So far Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS looks like a fuzzy star to the naked eye looking out the cupola windows. But with a 200mm, f2 ...

“The small jellyfish will sting, but the fish will build immunity to the toxin,” explained photographer Katherine Lu in a ...

For a century we’ve been doing the most important industrial chemical process the same way, and a change may come in the nick ...

A 2011 study famously proposed differences between the conservative and liberal brain, but a team has now replicated some of ...

Scientists say they've found a source of oxygen that doesn't rely on photosynthesis, but mining companies disagree.

Tasselled wobbegongs ( Eucrossorhinus dasypogon) are actually carpet sharks with long, flat bodies that blend into the coral ...

Stupendously rare footage of a bigfin squid, known for its alien-like appearance and unbelievably long tentacles, has been ...

A sk a child to draw water and, armed with crayons, they will make it blue. However, many adults would consider water to be colorless. The blue hue that large bodies of water have is not simply a ...

According to the Instagram account of Monterey Bay Whale Watch, the birds in the video being thrown around by the killer whales are common murres ( Uria aalge) a species that nests in large colonies ...