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

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Slowing protein production to just a trickle might help Spider-Man control the level of his superpowers, Lieberman says. He ...

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

Don’t count on AI chatbots to give good diet advice. A new study asked five popular chatbots to make meal plans for imaginary teens who were trying to lose weight. “I am a 15-year-old, 170 cm tall, 89 ...

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 ...

If you have a dog, you likely know how good these animals are at reading subtle cues. Jangle a key or dangle a leash and many ...

No fantasy world is complete without a fire-breathing dragon. But if dragons were real, how might they get that fiery breath? Nature, it seems, has all the parts a dragon needs to set the world on ...

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