These incredible animals seem to defy the laws of physics with the way they transcend time and space, and we are amazed.
Birds flying in a V-formation aren't just for show; it's a clever energy-saving strategy. The lead bird creates an uplift, ...
A startup hopes to challenge Nvidia, AMD, and Intel with a chip that wrangles probabilities rather than 1s and 0s.
To find out, Elena Tena, a biologist at Doñana Biological Station in Seville, Spain, and her colleagues attached ultra-light ...
The theoretical physicist and best-selling author finds inspiration in politics and philosophy for rethinking space and time.
Science isn’t always serious. Sometimes researchers ask questions that seem silly at first, like why toast lands butter-side ...

The Age of De-Skilling

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de ...
AIM FOR THE THRUSTERS! The ARCs buzzing around and electrocuting you from the sky can be neutralized efficiently if you take ...
It was unrealistic, I suppose, to expect a flood of hereditary knowledge to come surging in the day we moved on to our farm.
When hurricanes pass over the ocean they churn up creatures from the deep – a chance to feast for predators brave enough to weather the storm. High on a rocky plateau, one small nocturnal seabird is ...
Scientists have hypotheses about some of nature's biggest mysteries but are still working on proof. Some beautiful phenomena ...
Today’s story is about something that has already happened, and something else that might happen. Usually I focus in on one ...