Why are fish fish-shaped? – Lauren Sallan
In tropical seas, flying fish leap out of the water, gliding for up to 200 meters using wing-like fins, before dipping back into the sea. In the Indo-Pacific, a hunting...
In tropical seas, flying fish leap out of the water, gliding for up to 200 meters using wing-like fins, before dipping back into the sea. In the Indo-Pacific, a hunting...
In the world of math, many strange results are possible when we change the rules. But there’s one rule that most of us have been warned not to break: don’t...
As far as we know, there’s only one thing in our solar system sophisticated enough to study itself: the human brain. But this self-investigation is incredibly challenging; a living brain...
The oldest glue in the world is over 8,000 years old and comes from a cave near the Dead Sea. Ancient people used this glue, made from a mixture of...
Twenty thousand years ago, the Earth was a frigid landscape where woolly mammoths roamed. Huge ice sheets, several thousand meters thick, encased parts of North America, Asia, and Europe. We...
In the ocean’s depths, two titans wage battle: the sperm whale and the colossal squid. Sperm whales use echolocation to hunt these squid for food, but even against this gigantic...
The finish line’s in sight and you put on an extra burst of speed. As your legs pick up the pace, your breathing gets deeper, your heart pounds faster, and...
On July 4, 2015, a NASA spacecraft called New Horizons was 5 billion kilometers away from Earth. It was only 10 days away from Pluto, after flying for 9.5 years,...
Your favorite athlete closes in for a victorious win. The crowd holds its breath, and, at the crucial moment, she misses the shot. That competitor just experienced the phenomenon known...
Meet Dermatophagoides farinae. Crawling around on eight legs, this creature has no eyes to appreciate the kaleidoscope of colors around her. She relies on her extraordinary sense of smell to...