Italy is fighting an invasive crab species with a weapon that sounds almost too strange to be true. The country has released ...

A fossil misidentified for decades reveals insects before six legs became standard. For nearly 40 years, one of the strangest ...

Water and a solid surface can exchange charge as they touch and separate, a liquid version of static electricity. In the ...

On a remote Chilean mountaintop, inside a domed observatory named after astronomer Vera Rubin, a camera unlike any the world ...

Meteorites called Saint-Pierre-le-Viger fell that day and were later recovered. Credit: G. de Reijke. A meteoroid is a small ...

Dolly Parton wrote songs that millions of people knew by heart. “Jolene” turned jealousy into a three-minute plea. “9 to 5” ...

Singapore’s dense urban landscape is a utopia for adaptable bird species. Pigeons and mynas love to nest on air-conditioning ...

The authors go further. They argue that humanity is probably already below replacement fertility (they estimate the current ...

The bigmouth buffalo (Ictiobus cyprinellus) is a fish native to North America that is in decline. The female bigmouth buffalo ...

Eleven thousand years ago, someone in what is now southeastern Turkey carved a figure of a human being sitting on the back of ...

Most living mammals are small. Because smaller animals were less likely to survive the researchers’ simulated preservation ...

Six days after a Falcon 9 upper stage slammed into the lunar surface, NASA’s orbiting camera caught the aftermath.