Every species has tricks that make survival possible. Reptiles, for...

Computers run on silicon and metal. Mushrooms grow in soil....

Long before the first stars appeared, the Universe was silent....

More than 66 million years ago, a duck-billed dinosaur named Edmontosaurus...

Marine organisms that build tiny calcium carbonate shells are quietly...

Astronomers have spotted a likely rocky "super-Earth" just under 20...

Scientists in Hawaii have named a new bacterium species from...

Each year, mosquito-borne diseases claim hundreds of thousands of lives....

For centuries, people have used baker’s yeast to make bread...

Every river carries stories of land and life. As it...

For millions of years, Earth’s magnetic field has helped animals...