Here’s something you didn’t know. Clark’s nutcracker, a clever North American bird, can store over 33,000 pine seeds in 2500 ...

There’s no data to suggest that aliens exist. However, if we believed they existed and came to Earth, our planet would offer them a somewhat risky buffet. There is liquid water, as well as salts, ...

The world of audiobooks is rapidly becoming like that of podcasts – enormous riches are out there, but it’s hard to see the ...

Earth’s history has been shaped by five mass extinctions—catastrophic periods when life changed so dramatically that entire ecosystems disappeared. While each unfolded differently, scientists have ...

WASP-121 b is an ultra-hot gas giant where supersonic winds reshape its atmosphere, and molten iron rains from the sky. Its ...

The first six months of the year have brought us popular science reads on everything from consciousness to cosmology. Liz ...

Marvel Comics is celebrated for its role in creating the Bronze Age of comics, which lasted from 1975 to 1985. This era is known for its darker, more mature storylines that pushed the boundaries of ...

The grainy photos show a tailless shape with canards slipping through the Nevada night, and the internet reached for aliens. Aviation experts reached for something else: a demonstrator whose design ...

California has its own version of the Galapagos Islands sitting just off the coast of Ventura, and Channel Islands National ...

University of Michigan researchers have used an AI tool to demonstrate that birds in the group Passeriformes evolved in rapid ...

The transition from a lumbering, heavy dinosaur body to the flight-adapted bird body plan is one of many fascinating episodes in evolutionary history. Working out how this massive transformation took ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New ...