Feral water buffalo now roam Hong Kong s South Lantau marshes, and a 657-person survey shows they ignite nostalgia, wonder, and worry in equal measure. Many residents embrace them as living links to a...
Scientists found that embryonic skin cells “whisper” through faint mechanical tugs, using the same force-sensing proteins that make our ears ultrasensitive. By syncing these micro-movements, the cells...
Scientists have finally uncovered a quantum counterpart to Carnot’s famed second law, showing that entanglement—once thought stubbornly irreversible—can be shuffled back and forth without loss if you ...
Scientists say a species of bacteria rewrites the history of when an infectious and potentially deadly disease first arrived in the Americas. And it was long before the arrival of European explorers.R...
Scientists say that they have formulated a way to help people in stressful and demanding work environments track their brainwaves and brain usage — an electronic tattoo device, or "e-tattoo," on the p...
A team of scientists at the Institute for Advanced Study School of Natural Sciences in Princeton, New Jersey, might have found a new dwarf planet, potentially leading to more evidence of a theoretical...
Oceans around the globe have become darker over the last two decades, leaving researchers fearful for their marine inhabitants, according to a new study.Professor Thomas Davies of the University of Pl...
An underwater volcano off the Oregon coast could erupt late this year, scientists say. The volcano, known as Axial Seamount, is more than 4,900 feet beneath the Pacific Ocean and 300 miles off the Ore...
A Soviet-era spacecraft plunged to Earth on Saturday, more than a half-century after its failed launch to Venus.The European Union Space Surveillance and Tracking confirmed its uncontrolled reentry, b...
Cracking the dolphin code.Dolphins are one of the smartest animals on Earth and have been revered for thousands of years for their intelligence, emotions and social interaction with humans.Now Google ...
As thousands fly from caves at dusk, the cacophony can briefly stymie echolocation A greater mouse-tailed bat flying alone can easily echolocate obstacles, but scientists studied how bats navigate in ...
In Slither, Stephen S. Hall challenges us to rethink the much-maligned serpent The new book Slither dives into the complex nature of rattlesnakes (one shown) and other serpents, as well as humans’ lov...
