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A clever artist uses a scalpel and tweezers to cut beautiful bird silhouettes out of feathers
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In acidic water, drilling sponges damage scallops twice as quickly, worsening the effects of ocean acidification
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New research on Pacific corals that trace climate patterns back 7,000 years shows how recent El Niños compare with those of the past
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A new study shows that when our fingers get wrinkly, they're better at gripping wet objects
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A new study suggests a link, but it's important to remember the difference between causation and correlation
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Ancient Roman pills, preserved in sealed tin containers on the seafloor, may have been used as eye medicine
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One goby species in Hawaii uses its suction-cup mouth for both feeding and scaling walls, presenting an evolutionary chicken-or-egg conundrum
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Giving computers vision, through pattern recognition algorithms, could one day make them better than doctors at spotting tumors and other health problems.
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Chemical analysis shows that the meteorite, discovered in Morocco, contains ten times as much water as any Martian rock previously studied
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Chimpanzees will sooner kill than share food, but bonobos will sacrifice some of their own goods for the pleasure of interacting with strangers
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In his new book, Extinct Boids, artist Ralph Steadman introduces readers to a flock of birds that no longer live in the wild
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The world’s most charismatic amphibian is upending the conventional wisdom about evolution
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New research offers surprising answers to the age-old question of where morality comes from
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An underground scientist is pioneering a new way to learn what the climate was like thousands of years ago
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In Chile’s Atacama Desert, astronomers are preparing for a new array that will stretch across 10 miles
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Efforts to label the human epoch have ignited a scientific debate between geologists and environmentalists
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Neuroscientists don’t really know how humans keep time, but they have some theories
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Switching up your sleep schedule is wreaking havoc on your body’s natural rhythm
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New research suggests we can defy genetic destiny
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Preserved in stone, a set of ancient insect wings are “chirping” once again thanks to the work of entomologists
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