According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the ...

Halloween seems like an appropriate time to let you know that zombies are real. Or at least zombie bacteria are, according to a timely new study published in Angewandte Chemie. A team of biologists ...

Much of what we understand about the universe comes from interpreting the light patterns that hit our telescopes—from the smallest twinkles of distant stars to giant clouds of dust and gas. That’s ...

In the late Cretaceous, fruit was a brand new innovation. Flowering plants first evolved during this period and started taking over on land, replacing cone-bearing plants. But who was eating this ...

Daylight Saving Time is now over, which means you probably enjoyed an extra hour of sleep over the weekend. Unfortunately, even a welcome disruption of your sleep cycle may be bad for your heart, at ...

The most abundant whale species in the waters off southwest Australia is a subspecies of the blue whale: the pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda). Yet, despite being more common than ...