Science

The bedraggled bumblebee queen seemed lifeless. Yet she was somehow alive — still breathing after being underwater for roughly a week in…

Everybody farts. The question is how often? And how much gas is too much gas to pass? Those are questions…

Thunderstorms may bring more than rain and gloom. The same forces that cause thunder and lightning also make treetops sparkle…

The St. Elias Mountains in southeast Alaska are dotted with over 100 lakes where glaciers crumble into milky, turquoise water.…

Robotic hands are getting their nails done. Researchers have designed a new three-fingered robotic hand whose digits come with a…

A spacecraft slowed the orbit of a pair of asteroids around the sun by more than 10 micrometers per second…

A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these exceptional…

A rapid koala rebound in southeastern Australia is also boosting their genetic variation, showing one way out of an extinction…

Homegrown chickpeas could be on the menu for future astronauts. With help from compost and symbiotic fungi, chickpea plants grow…

Astronomers’ favorite fable just got a new twist. The “Goldilocks zone” — the region of space not too close and…