The deep seafloor remains a mystery—only 0.001% has been seen. We live on an ocean world. Yet we know surprisingly little about these oceans. In a new study published in Science Advances, researchers ...

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that flamingos are dynamical predators. Using a combination of webbed feet, L-shaped beaks, and fast head movements, ...

“Cracking an egg for cooking involves applying locally focused force for a clean break to retrieve the yolk, while its resistance to breaking from a drop involves distributing and absorbing energy ...

Simply put, Barbie is becoming a modern woman. “Barbie appears to reflect what many high heel wearers (mainly women) do every ...

For years, paleontologists have debated whether Archaeopteryx could truly fly. The Chicago specimen may finally put this ...

Embedded in the slab’s fine sandstone are delicate imprints: long toes ending in sharp claws, left by an animal that trotted ...

This contrast supports a well-known theory of reading called the dual-route framework, which proposes two distinct paths: a ...

A new bioengineered ink dramatically boosts coral larvae settlement. The oceans are getting hotter and coral reefs are ...

Amazon’s Project Kuiper aims to beam internet from space—but raises questions on debris, sky glow.

Jacqueline Halpin is a geologist at the University of Tasmania. She studies how the Earth’s continents have grown and moved ...

Archaeologist Juan de Lara of Oxford University spent four years reconstructing the ancient temple’s lighting with a precision never before achieved. He lifts the veil — both literal and metaphorical ...

In the forests of Uganda, wild chimpanzees have been caught on camera doing something startlingly human: treating each ...