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 ...

Space junk, also called space debris, refers to trash left in space by humans. This trash includes objects as large as abandoned satellites and as small as flecks of paint. Humans have been generating ...

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 ...

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

Bright sunlight can flash off water, glass or metal. The resulting glare will make it hard to see anything clearly. The solution: Put on a pair of sunglasses with polarized lenses. Regular, tinted ...

Sometimes, pieces of Earth’s outer layer pull apart like taffy. Right now, part of Africa is being stretched to nearly the breaking point. The giant jigsaw pieces of Earth’s outer layer are called ...

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.

When we talk with friends about energy, sometimes we’re talking about how tired or invigorated we feel. Other times we’re referring to how much charge is left in the battery on our phones. But in ...