The Japanese art of paper folding is called origami — from the Japanese words “oru” (to fold) and “kami” (paper).

Within the ocean region where El Niños form, daily sea-surface temperatures are already more extreme than at any point in ...

The problem is that scientists estimate dinosaurs’ speed based on tracks they left in wet ground millions of years ago. And for decades, researchers have used a fairly simple formula to link dinos’ ...

Take a plunge into Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, and you’ll come face to face with a what looks like a gorgeous rocky garden. This dazzling array of corals is the largest living structure on Earth.

Pyrolysis is a process though which heat breaks down large molecules into smaller ones. It is just one of the chemical ...

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 ...

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

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

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

Our sweets cravings may have set the stage for the human brain to become big and powerful. That’s the finding of a new study. The brains of our upright-walking ancestors, some 4 million years ago, ...

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

Even in ancient times, stargazers knew that planets differed from stars. While stars always appeared in the same general place in the night sky, planets shifted their positions from night to night.