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

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

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

Avery Elizabeth Hurt is lucky that as a science journalist she gets to indulge her love of science and her insatiable curiosity. She writes articles and books about science and social issues for both ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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.