Why do most mammals have 5 fingers?
The simple question of "why five" has puzzled scientists from multiple fields, and the answer still isn't entirely clear.
The simple question of "why five" has puzzled scientists from multiple fields, and the answer still isn't entirely clear.
A puzzling arc was spotted in the water of a Greenland fjord littered with iceberg fragments. There are a couple of possible explanations for this bizarre phenomenon but we will likely never know what caused it, experts say.
In a new series of comics, where young, female scientists take center stage, MIT's Ritu Raman explains how the format can inspire the next generation of young people into the world of STEM.
Coronal moss grows, solar rain falls and plasma eruptions rear their gargantuan heads in this fiery landscape of the sun's outer atmosphere, taken by ESA's Solar Orbiter.
Sometimes bacteria lurking in people's guts can get them drunk, even if they don't consume any alcohol.
And like dogs, why do cats also sniff fellow felines' behinds?
Your running speed partly comes down to factors you can't control, like genetics, and partly relies on your training.
How can we truly know if AI is sentient? We do not yet fully understand the nature of human consciousness, so we cannot discount the possibility that today's AI is indeed sentient — and that we are mistreating it to potentially grave consequences.
Hammer-headed bats are named after the males' oversized boxy heads, which evolved to amplify and project the honking sounds they produce to impress females during courtship displays.
The research combined radiocarbon dating with measurements of atmospheric radiocarbon from tree rings to build a chronology of the ancient city.
Cats are masters of contortion — and the laws of physics — which helps them stick the landing more times than not.
Experts look to psychology and physiology to understand why people sometimes feel better after receiving a sham treatment.
China's launched its Chang'e 6 sample-return mission, which will haul dirt and rocks home from the mysterious lunar far side.
A 3,500-year-old rest house in the Sinai desert may have been used by an Egyptian pharaoh.
The languages of the earliest Americans evolved in 4 waves, according to one expert.
Health officials have warned of an ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in Long Beach, California.
Infections can trigger pregnancy complications, and now, new miniature versions of the placenta are helping show why.
The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now climatologists finally know why.
New James Webb Space Telescope observations of the exoplanet WASP-43b reveal that the hot gas giant is tidally locked, meaning one side permanently faces its sun while the other always stares out into space.