Science
Milky Way’s Biggest Black Hole 33 Times Bigger Than Our Sun
In the career of an astronomer, it’s hard to...
Climate Change Plays Havoc with Trees’ Internal Clocks
Most people associate circadian rhythms and internal clocks with...
Ancient Tapeworm Trapped in Resin Could Trigger Jurassic Park Scenario
Parasitologists in China have discovered one of the world’s...
Medieval Cemetery Yields Secrets of Elite Horse Trade
In medieval London, horses acted as the vehicular currency...
Barcode Birds: Chickadees Use Cranial Coding to Find Cached Food
The familiar black-capped chickadee spends its winters digging up...
Museum Creates Free Online 3D Scans of 13,000 Vertebrates
The dissection industry just took a major hit.
The Florida...
The Pink Fairy Armadillo: A Unique Mammal with Two Layers of Skin
The pink fairy armadillo is the smallest species of...
2,000 Earthquakes in a Day Hammer Fault Line Off Pacific Coast
Deep beneath the north Pacific Ocean, a slumbering giant...
Blind, Cave-Dwelling Salamanders Sneak to the Surface
Blind cave salamanders in Italy have shocked scientists by...
Two Male Humpback Whales Seen Having Sex — With Each Other
For the first time, humpback whales have been spotted...
One of the World’s Tiniest Fishes Makes a Sound Like a Gunshot
Barely the size of a thumbnail, a Myanmar fish...
Love Songs Lead Scientists to Skywalker Gibbons
Scientists have found a previously unknown population of skywalker...
Poison Dart Frogs’ Fancy Footwork Helps Drum up Dinner
If you thought toe-tapping was out of style except...
‘Truly Remarkable’: Tiny Mushroom Grows Out of A Frog
Wetlands specialist Lohit Y.T was walking through India's Western...
Weekend Warm-Up: Alfred Wegener’s Iron Arctic Will
Alfred Wegener’s 1930 expedition to Greenland was a monster....
Monkey Business: Apes Joke All the Time, Apparently
Playing a joke on your buddy, sibling, or parent...
Our Moon is Shrinking, Putting Future Missions at Risk
It's tempting to think of the Moon as unchanging,...
