We now know how gold crystals start to form at the atomic scale.
Back when mega wombats, sheep-sized echidnas, and marsupial lions roamed the ancient lands of Australia, there also lived a gigantic flightless bird. Known by some...
Early results from a landmark research program designed to observe the brain development and health of American children have just been released, revealing a first...
At the core of just about every plant, algae, and blob of green pond scum on Earth sits a molecular engine for harvesting sunlight. Its only...
Selective breeding by humans has led to some incredibly odd and unfortunate pets over the years, and the sauteur d'Alfort rabbit is among the strangest of...
Peer long enough into the heavens, and the Universe starts to resemble a city at night. Galaxies take on characteristics of streetlamps cluttering up neighborhoods...
Figuring out when the earliest human species first developed and used stone tools is an important task for anthropologists, since it was such an important evolutionary...
Climate change has wrought major changes to ocean stability faster than previously thought, according to a study published Wednesday, raising alarms over its role...
The class of marine animals known as cephalopoda – which today includes squids, octopuses, and cuttlefishes – could have been around on Earth 30 million years earlier...
Strange things are afoot in the Milky Way.