Japanese gardens like Kyoto’s Murin-an ease stress by guiding the eyes to wander. Researchers reveal how thoughtful design ...

Ants that sipped a sugar drop dipped in caffeine found it again more quickly on later trips, leaving a stronger scent trail ...

A particle that lacks the energy to climb a barrier can still appear on the far side, a curiosity known as “quantum tunneling ...

An octopus rides on the back of a fast mako shark off the coast of New Zealand; a scientific video reveals an unusual interaction.

A 165-million-year-old femur has been discovered in Morocco, the oldest cerapodan fossil ever found. It is a key find for ...

Discover how “aha!” moments reshape the brain and boost memory. A new study reveals why sudden insights make learning more ...

Landscapes with heavy human pressure contain barely one-fifth of the species they could support according to a survey of ...

Periodic radio emissions have been discovered in a binary system of white and red dwarf stars with an orbit time of 125 ...

The science team behind Perseverance wanted to know whether that glow from the Mars aurora could be seen in the visible ...

Fossil discovery pushes the history of Australian tree frogs back 55 million years, reshaping our understanding of their ...

New research from Ohio State University reveals genetic differences in the heart's natural pacemaker between men and women.

National Endangered Species Day began in 2006 to raise awareness. The IUCN Red List includes over 41,000 endangered species.