According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the plants receive information from light. Your light receptors are located on the ...

It may take a while to become as famous as Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, or Monument Valley, but the 12,000-acre Chiricahua ...

The alternative is finding out how to live on a planet suffering from chronic lung disease.

Part of the art and science of astrophotography is figuring out when certain flying objects in the sky are going to line up for a photo opportunity. And few photographs demonstrate it better than AJ ...

The origins of the Germanic languages (English, German, Dutch, and the Nordic languages) have been the subject of debate for decades among linguists. Now geneticists are getting in on the action with ...

Have you ever taken months off training—maybe due to an injury, a new baby, or crushing work deadlines—and come back convinced you were starting from zero? Research from our team has some good news: ...

“Good, thanks. Ate some great food. Saw the sights. Really managed to unwind. Oh, and I discovered a 120-million-year-old dinosaur footprint.” That’s the story 32-year-old Pichai Prathetsena can tell ...

Ever wondered why a bad night’s sleep can leave you irritable, anxious or sad? Poor sleep affects our emotions, but its timing also plays a role. Our circadian rhythms are nearly 24-hour cycles that ...

A University of Cambridge linguist has uncovered a treasure trove containing the earliest known recordings of Creole language and analyzed them for the first time in a study published in Language ...

A team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope recently spotted something curious. Observing a white dwarf (J1328−1450) located roughly 1,600 light-years from ...

We have identification of humans down pat—a complete human fingerprint can pinpoint the person it belongs to more than 90 percent of the time, according to forensic scientists. To study animals in the ...