In the public’s mind, Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work has largely been reduced to this one experiment, in which Franklin demonstrated that discharges from thunderstorms are electric in nature (SN: ...

The method of hunting may imply that some orcas in the Gulf of California have acquired a special set of skills–like going ...

Orcas off the coast of Mexico have devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale sharks, and marine scientists have ...

The novel discusses the idea of “terraforming,” without using the specific term. Specifically, the desert-dwellers referred ...

Two species of ancient human relatives crossed paths 1.5 million years ago. Fossilized footprints in Kenya captured the ...

Muddy footprints left on a Kenyan lakeside suggest two of our early human ancestors were neighbors some 1.5 million years ago ...

For the wayfinders and navigators that practice Polynesian voyaging, the clues of where to go are all around the big blue and ...

To bring a dose of scientific magic to the Thanksgiving festivities, we had special guest Jason Lindsey, otherwise known as "Mr. Science," on the show to demonstrate a handful of cool , ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savannah teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Now, a team of international scientists, including University of Michigan researchers, have used advanced microscopy to image ...

The JLR Circularity Lab, based at its HQ in Gaydon, brings cross-functional teams together with expert partners and suppliers ...

The more exciting, transformative, and revolutionary a science result appears, especially coming out of nowhere, the more ...