From a predator’s perspective, these features create an illusion of a second head at the rear of the butterfly. If the attack ...

Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, ...

Golden oyster mushrooms, with their sunny yellow caps and nutty flavor, have become wildly popular for being healthy, delicious and easy to grow at home ...

In 1704, Isaac Newton sat down with pen and paper and tried to calculate the end of the world. He didn’t use a telescope or a ...

Scientists in Denmark got bacteria to do something surprising—they made milk proteins, without any cows or milk.

Diedrich argued that Ice Age hyenas had powerful jaws and often gnawed on juvenile cave bear bones, puncturing them in ...

Conservationists in Pakistan have snapped incredibly rare images of two small cat species: the Asiatic caracal (Caracal ...

It’s a challenging argument, and a very timely one. Over a decade later, as the United States grapples with rising ...

In fact, “the ‘fireworks’ from the simulation show that the number and extent of the fingers can be changed depending on when ...

To print microscopic structures, scientists need to inject a liquid material called a photoresist into the cell. This special ...

Sean Mowbray is a freelance writer from Scotland. He often covers lesser-known species that fly under the conservation radar.

Eight weeks. That’s how long it takes, on average, for the pounds to begin creeping back after someone stops taking the world ...