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 ...

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 ...

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

Humans could learn from chimpanzees and bonobos. When things get tense, these apes turn to group members for hugs, touches ...

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, ...

Remember the tale of King Midas? He asked for the golden touch, hoping to get rich. Tragically, he wound up turning food, water and even his own daughter to gold. When it comes to AI, we’re like King ...

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.