Soot that accumulated in the feathers of songbirds for the past 100 years has caused scientists to re-evaluate their records of air...
The durian holds the dubious honor of being arguably the world’s smelliest fruit. Now, scientists in Singapore announced that they have pinpointed...
Brooklyn’s trees have been taking a hit. Scientists found that 30 trees in the city have been infected by oak wilt, a...
A species has been brought back from the dead, after being declared extinct in the 1920s. The Australian Lord Howe Island stick...
Doctors generally use staples or sutures to close open wounds. However, neither of these methods creates a complete seal. It gets even...
National Geographic takes the grandeur of the deep ocean into the heart of New York City with its “Ocean Odyssey” opening in...
Cats, both wild and tame, kill over one million birds in Australia daily, a new study showed. This mass slaughter is behind...
If scientists get their way, tattoos could soon be used to track a person’s health condition. Researchers at Harvard University and the...
Three Americans received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Monday for their work on the body’s circadian rhythms, or...
Researchers in China are using new methods to fix genetic diseases in human embryos by cloning embryos with a mutation for a...
A team of scientists believe that they may have identified the hominid that gave modern-day humans genital herpes. There were two herpes...
A strong solar storm hit Mars early in September, causing a global aurora on the Red Planet that appeared 25 times brighter...
Animal farts and poop contribute to global warming, particularly when it comes to livestock. But a new study says that scientists may...
Scientists have identified another surge of gravitational waves coming from two black holes that are joining together. They collided nearly 2 billion...
Scientists in the Solomon Islands have discovered a rodent that up until now, had been thought to be no more than a...
Katherine G. Johnson had the spotlight on her last year when the movie “Hidden Figures” hit theaters worldwide and gained Oscar nominations....
In about 10 years, a small colony of humans may already be living on the moon. Then in the following decade, around...
Even dinosaurs had cheat days when it came to their diets, a new report suggests. Hadrosaurs, also called duckbills, were thought to...
For some ducks, there really is more than meets the eye. In some species, their penises get longer when fighting with other...
The world’s biggest and smallest animals are the most at risk for extinction, a new analysis points out. When it comes to...