A sickle across the throat and a padlock on her toe were meant to keep a 17th-century teen girl from resurrecting from the ...

Scientists are exploring new ways to regain control of stressed-out nervous systems, including humming, tapping on the skin ...

A sanguivore is an animal that eats blood. Some species survive on blood alone. They are called obligate sanguivores. Bedbugs ...

The wild world is full of roars, whoops and songs. Scientists are using such sounds to guide efforts to help save species at ...

Three species picked their favorite human targets based on skin odor and bacteria. The findings could help design better ...

To cut their wastes to nearly zero, circular cities are launching projects to repair, reuse and recycle virtually everything.

Dark matter isn’t the universe’s only “missing” matter. Distant bursts of radio waves have now turned up vast, faint gas ...

Researchers recently learned that bees can swim. New findings show that bees paddle toward shade and dark to reach shore.

Some hydrogels are made of natural polymers. Jell-O is a good example. It contains a natural polymer called gelatin. Other ...

Blood Falls is a five-story waterfall that flows out of Taylor Glacier in Antarctica. The water comes from a salty lake beneath the glacier that’s rich in iron. When the water reaches the glacier’s ...

When water droplets take on an electric charge, rain can become corrosive and start to eat through bridges, cars and more, new data show.

The Arizona honeysweet can beat the heat using evaporative cooling to keep its leaves up to 13 degrees C (23 degrees F) cooler than the surrounding air.