Category science

August’s full moon was the first of four supermoons this year. We’ve rounded up some of the best photos worldwide.

Meowing, sticking their paw under the door or pawing at the door are just some of the strange things cats do around closed doors. But why?

‘Doomsday glacier’ won’t collapse the way we thought, new study suggests

From worms with squid-like tentacles to fish with teeth on their tongues, here are some of the most alien-looking creatures in the deep ocean.

An internal power source could enable the development of tiny robots for applications like drug delivery and remote sensing.

Swabs of 30 microwave ovens in different settings identified over 100 bacterial species, some of which could be pathogenic or cause food-borne disease.

Discover interesting facts about how evolution works, the different patterns that can emerge from evolution, how quickly organisms can evolve, and whether evolution is a random or ordered process

Komodo dragon teeth are ironclad. For real. These animals — the largest living lizards — have razor-sharp teeth. What’s more, a layer of iron lines the tips and saw-like edges of these chompers. That’s the finding of a July 24…

New research gives insight into when the ancestor of all living things lived, and it’s earlier than we thought.

The tree of life maps out the relationships between all living things, and it’s in constant flux.