Even a brief glance reveals that the platypus is a pretty weird creature. It looks sort of like a beaver that tried to disguise itself as a duck. In fact, the first naturalist who described this ...

In the guts of a new type of computer, a bunch of tiny LEDs emit a green glow. Those lights have a job to do. They’re performing calculations. Right now, this math is telling the computer how to ...

Within the ocean region where El Niños form, daily sea-surface temperatures are already more extreme than at any point in ...

If you have a dog, you likely know how good these animals are at reading subtle cues. Jangle a key or dangle a leash and many ...

When you look at the white surface after staring at the red-colored object, your eyes will essentially receive equal doses of ...

People make a lot of gas, and it’s got to come out one end or the other. Understanding those farts and burps could tell us a ...

Humans aren’t the only animals who fart. Take Dakota, an English cocker spaniel. When she was getting older, she could no ...

Earth’s oceans are heating up. But since the 19th century, one patch in the North Atlantic has cooled by about 1 degree ...

The Japanese art of paper folding is called origami — from the Japanese words “oru” (to fold) and “kami” (paper).

Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos. When things get tense, these apes turn to group members for hugs, touches ...

Pyrolysis is a process though which heat breaks down large molecules into smaller ones. It is just one of the chemical ...

Studying this paradox eventually led scientists to a deeper understanding of cancer biology. A paradox is when a scenario ...