For naked mole-rats, the queen wields such power. Naked mole-rat queens release a calming scent to control their colonies, a ...

People make a lot of gas, and it’s got to come out one end or the other. Understanding those farts and burps could tell us a ...

Humans aren’t the only animals who fart. Take Dakota, an English cocker spaniel. When she was getting older, she could no ...

Earth’s oceans are heating up. But since the 19th century, one patch in the North Atlantic has cooled by about 1 degree ...

Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos. When things get tense, these apes turn to group members for hugs, touches ...

Electric charge can change the temperature at which water freezes. Most people know what happens at 0º Celsius (or 32 º Fahrenheit): Water freezes. When the temperature outside is below freezing, for ...

In the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The Two Towers, an army of treelike creatures called Ents slowly marches to war. They walk for miles through thick, dark forests. Once they arrive at Saruman ...

Studying this paradox eventually led scientists to a deeper understanding of cancer biology. A paradox is when a scenario ...

When Percy Lee has a bad day, he hangs out with his chinchilla, Rin. “She’s like emotional support for me,” says the 14-year-old. Percy, who lives near Kansas City, Kansas, and is the author’s nephew, ...

A bolide is a bright meteor. Usually, this word describes meteors that explode in the atmosphere. A bolide’s extreme brightness sets it apart from other meteors. Astronomers use “apparent magnitude” ...

Bite marks on a 2-million-year-old human jaw suggest leopards once hunted people as prey. People likely survived by learning to team up.