Though there were setbacks on climate change and funding for science this year, there was still plenty of amazing discoveries ...
Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?
At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...
The markings, which appear on the outside of the fruit, are the result of a virus. They are safe to eat, even if they do look pretty weird.
A strange, new species of ribbon worm, Pararosa vigarae, stretches its body like an accordion, capable of shrinking to ...
Aliens might be transmitting communications signals to each other across exoplanets, some astronomers think. Since these ...
One mission would involve a full 300 sols on the Red Planet, with the goal of finding extinct or current life on Mars. But ...
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The Geminids are one of the best meteor showers of the year—and the weirdest. Here’s how to see them
This December's dazzling display comes from a strange asteroid with comet-like behavior—and a tail of debris that astronomers ...
Dr. Julie Horvath is the head of the Genomics & Microbiology Research Lab at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences ...
The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does ...
Scientists reveal Priocharax rex, a tiny Amazonian fish with a strange skin “wing” that redefines evolution in miniature.
A new study shows that Cleveland's famous sea monster Dunkleosteus terrelli actually had a more normal size and jaw than ...
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