In 1993, Stanford University biology professor Deborah Gordon and her first graduate student, Katy Human, began a survey of ants...
A flood of epic proportions drained at a rate of more than 800 Olympic swimming pools per second from a glacial lake that spanned...
A Long March 6 rocket lifts off Wednesday with two small satellites. Credit: Institute of Microsatellite Innovation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences A Chinese rocket...
An instinctive reaction to creepy-crawlies doesn't go away when you're in space.
The extraordinary diversity of insects and fishes, the most species-rich invertebrate and vertebrate groups in the animal kingdom,...
"The bottom line is that the evolution of the lunar mantle is more complicated than originally thought."
How do squirrels leap through trees without falling? It takes strength, flexibility and finely tuned cognitive skills.
Clouds of electrons blooming in deep space have been revealed in a whole new level of detail, showing cosmic phenomena unlike...
Every day, there are acrobatic extravaganzas going on above our heads. Squirrels navigate remarkably complex and unpredictable...
Earth wasn't born with the oxygen-rich atmosphere that fuels life today. Living things supplied the gas, but scientists have...