Bird beaks come in almost every shape and size – from the straw-like beak of a hummingbird to the slicing, knife-like beak of ...

In November of 2020, a freak wave came out of the blue, lifting a lonesome buoy off the coast of British Columbia 17.6 meters ...

Crows have a sense of geometric intuition much like our own, a new study reveals. They can detect the 'odd one out' in a set ...

Many teachers and parents know neuroscience, the study of how the brain functions and develops, is important for children's ...

Thought to be more than 2,000 years old, the Antikythera mechanism is widely considered the first computer in history, an ...

NASA's Lucy spacecraft made a successful flyby of the second asteroid on its must-see list over the weekend, and sent back ...

A team of astronomers announced on April 16, 2025, that in the process of studying a planet around another star, they had ...

The long-eared owl, Asio otus, is a majestic raptor known for its perky horn-like ear tufts, and cryptic herringbone markings ...

Researchers named it 'Oumuamua, Hawaiian for "scout". 'Oumuamua was later confirmed to be the first object from another star ...

Amid very real worries that tech is eroding our cognitive skills – why learn math or facts when you always have a calculator ...

Determining the passage of time in our world of ticking clocks and oscillating pendulums is a simple case of counting the ...