Take sleep, for example: is it that getting a regular good night’s sleep is good for your heart health, or is there some other factor – anxiety, drugs, or medication, something like that – which might ...

Male fruit flies of the Drosophila genus fight over mates and food when they encounter each other – with the exception of Drosophila santomea males, which court each other with mating songs instead.

So, Tan and colleagues put the audience effect to the test by using an aspirator to remove spectator bees while a bee was ...

A bright fireball exploded over the Texan skies just a few days ago, and it seems to have dropped a meteorite right through ...

Many new species have been found in the region's mostly unexplored karst landscape, including a beautiful new pit viper ...

Sargassum is a kind of brown algae that forms massive, island-like mats of seaweed in open water. It’s the namesake of the ...

From the moment he leapt from his capsule to the moment he touched the reassuring ground, a whopping 9 minutes and 9 seconds ...

There are only around 90 documented cases, but they range from sudden music or math expertise to near-photographic memory.

O n top of the Hudson Mountains in West Antarctica, strange pink boulders stand starkly against a backdrop of ice, snow, and ...

If disaster strikes and you’re tasked with clearing up some radioactive ruins, hardy robots are far better suited for the ...

But that was the reality for Alexei Leonov as he floated outside of his spacecraft some 61 years ago this week. “My suit was ...

It was 1965, and Alexei Leonov had just been through a terror no human before had ever experienced: the first-ever spacewalk.