Some hydrogels are made of natural polymers. Jell-O is a good example. It contains a natural polymer called gelatin. Other ...

When water droplets take on an electric charge, rain can become corrosive and start to eat through bridges, cars and more, ...

Dark matter isn’t the universe’s only “missing” matter. Distant bursts of radio waves have now turned up vast, faint gas ...

This five-story-tall waterfall in Antarctica gets its blood-red color from the same reaction that creates rust.

The Arizona honeysweet can beat the heat using evaporative cooling to keep its leaves up to 13 degrees C (23 degrees F) ...

Douglas Fox is a freelance journalist who writes about life, earth and Antarctic sciences. His stories have appeared in Scientific American, National Geographic, Esquire, Virginia Quarterly Review, ...

Leaves of the Arizona honeysweet can turn on evaporative cooling to keep the plant up to 13 degrees C (23 degrees F) cooler than the surrounding air.

The wild world is full of roars, whoops and songs. Scientists are using such sounds to guide efforts to help save species at ...

Imagine closing your eyes in a forest at dawn. You cannot see wildlife around you, but you can hear it. Based only on what you hear, what might you learn about the wildlife in this forest? Explain ...

Researchers recently learned that bees can swim. New findings show that bees paddle toward shade and dark to reach shore.

Early theropod species appear to have been mostly carnivorous. Over time, however, the group evolved into a diverse range of ...