W hen a tree fell in a remote region of the Brazilian Amazon, local villagers noticed something big and very strange lurking ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

Data from 96 mastodon teeth reveals that the proboscidean lived in fruit-rich forests and traveled widely. Although they mostly fed on leaves, fruit was part of their diet, although more in some ...

A group of teeny tiny mouse-deer in the family Tragulidae numbers 10 species that live in warmer parts of Southeast Asia, India, and Africa. They are small, delicate, and extremely elusive: they are ...

The Antarctic Impulsive Transient Antenna (ANITA) experiment floats a range of instruments above Antarctica using a stratospheric balloon. The experiment is aimed at detecting cosmic neutrinos, tiny ...

Overall, then, the answer is no – for 95 percent of shark species, the idea that they’ll keel over if they ever stop moving is simply not true. Most of them can breathe using ram ventilation; many of ...

That puppy picture doesn't just cheer one person up – it can end up lifting the spirits of a vast network of people.

The Sun is the closest star to us and the most studied by humanity. There is a lot we still do not know about it. Among the unknowns, until today, were the Sun's polar regions. We simply had not seen ...

That’s right, when a velvet worm senses a meal is in reach, or a foe is close by, they rear up and brandish two appendages ...

“We find the octopuses of these maps portraying a diverse set of enemies including religious groups, ideologies, wartime ...

In 2004, researchers from the mining group Rio Tinto found this peculiar mineral in Jadar (pronounced "Yadar"), Serbia. Its ...

“Every body part is sensitive to the phenomenon, such as a phantom erection pain following a penectomy,” explained Lim.