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.

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 ...

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 ...

A groundbreaking discovery has revealed that Mars’ surface shares striking similarities with Earth’s coldest regions.

Author Edward Dolnick brought to light a few lesser known examples of Newton's assholery in his enjoyably enlightening book, The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of ...

Cuttlefish flash patterns and colors on their skin to communicate, and they may wave their tentacles to send visual and vibrational signals, scientists hypothesize.