It probably looked a little peculiar. A grown man (me), slithering along the hillside on his belly, swimming through thistles ...

In the natural world -- where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity -- animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an ...

The Salmon Cannon and the Levitating Frog contends that curiosity-driven research helps us understand the world and could lead to unexpected benefits.

A surprising connection has been found, between two seemingly very different classes of superconductors. In a new material, atoms are distributed irregularly, but still manage to create long-range ...

Any male cat with the mutation dubbed “sex-linked orange” will be entirely orange due to a random deletion of a section of ...

Ever notice how rose petals curl at the edges with those elegant pointed tips? For centuries, artists have celebrated these ...

Scientists from Kyushu University have identified the long-sought “orange gene” behind ginger fur in domestic cats—a deletion ...

Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have discovered that Cepheid variable stars in our neighboring galaxy, the Small ...

A UT-led team observed an interlayer skyrmion—a swirling pattern of electric dipoles in an ultrathin material—for the first ...

Meteorologists are warning of the potential for a summer drought, as the UK has seen roughly half its usual amount of ...