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Tests on captive animals reveal that the marine mammals now hold the record for retaining memories longer than any other non-human species
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A popular online quiz matches you with the shark species that best represents you, but individuals within a species can vary greatly, experts say
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Paleontologists, both professional and amateur, have dreamed up some bizarre explanations of how the dinosaurs disappeared from Earth
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Researchers pinpointed the molecule responsible for the searing pain of a burn, and may have found a new way of eliminating it entirely
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Intrigued by the powerful hunters, artists have made tiger sharks, great whites and hammerheads the subjects of sculpture
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Shark tourism, cannibalistic shark embryos, wetsuits designed to camouflage from sharks and more
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Israeli physicist Eshel Ben-Jacob uses bacteria as an art medium, shaping colonies in petri dishes into bold patterns
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Getting away from artificial light and basking in sunlight can reset your internal clock, new research shows
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A new study finds that across cultures, time and space, we consistently see more violence as temperatures rise and rainfall becomes more erratic
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The world's cities are in the midst of a skyscraper boom. And one growing trend is to connect pre-fab floors like Lego pieces
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Watch as the popular crustacean gets snared by its predator's tentacles. Will it survive?
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Some tigers trek the human-filled landscape between nature preserves to find mates, but such opportunities to ensure genetic diversity are getting rarer
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Women who constantly binge on junk food while pregnant might pass their penchant for sweet and fatty food on to their children, a new study suggests
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Is a club where you train on walls while sensors track your body's performance just another fitness trend? Or is it real innovation?
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An engineer and an artist at Ohio University team up to create paints made of sludge extracted from streams near abandoned coal mines
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With the plans for a Yucca Mountain waste repository scrapped, scientists suggest that clay-rich rocks could permanently house spent nuclear fuel
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Studying nematodes as life leaves them may lead to insights into exactly how death travels through the body, and, perhaps, whether we can delay it
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Volker Steger photographs Nobel laureates posing with sketches of their breakthrough findings
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Watch the pandas munch bamboo on 24-hour live-stream cams at the Zoo and check out new video of Mei Xiang
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The Ramps and Pathways program encourages students to think like engineers before they've reached double digits
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