Category science

More than 100 volcanoes lurk beneath the surface in Antarctica. Ice sheet melt could set them off.

Record-breaking Wolf 907F, the alpha of the Junction Butte pack, died after a confrontation with a rival pack at Yellowstone River on Christmas Day.

A velvet ant bite like “hot oil from the deep fryer” delivers an array of peptides that inflicts pain on insects and mammals alike.

When Pluto met Charon, there was an instant connection, new simulations suggest.

Living tissue from the memory centers of people’s brains reveals sparse nerve cell connections that provide strong, reliable signaling between cells.

Guides to identifying trees usually rely on leaves to distinguish between species. But if you live where it gets cold in winter, the trees around you may look a little barer at this time of year. Many trees shed their…

Frost Quake (noun, “Frahst Kwayk”) In winter, a sudden drop in temperature can trigger a frost quake. During one of these events, the ground splits with a loud boom and shakes like an earthquake but on a much smaller scale.…

This marble statuette is emblematic of Ptolemaic-era art: a mishmash of styles with a decidedly Egyptian twist.

An astronomer describes how the moon’s surface temperature changes.

Twins are pretty rare, accounting for just 3% of births in the U.S. these days. But new research shows that for primates 60 million years ago, giving birth to twins was the norm.