Dust storms in the Gulf of Alaska, captured by NASA’s Aqua satellite.
There are more satellites than ever before, orbiting Earth and collecting data that's crucial for scientists. Why do some nations choose not to share that data openly?
How do they each know what to do?
Researchers identified simple behavioral rules that allow these tiny creatures to collaboratively build elaborate structures, with no one in charge.
How do they do while sleeping what we can barely do at all?
Carlos Bustamante Restrepo
These birds spend long periods, often asleep, standing on one leg. Is it passive biomechanics or active nervous system control of their muscles that allows them to do easily what's impossible for us?
Between the Earth and the moon: An artist’s rendering of a refueling depot for deep-space exploration.
Sung Wha Kang (RISD)
To get us to Mars and beyond, a team of students from around the world has a plan involving lunar rovers mining ice and a space station between the Earth and the moon.
Defecation duration is surprisingly similar throughout the mammal world.
Elephant image via www.shutterstock.com.
New parenthood got our fluid dynamics experts thinking about what ends up in the diaper. They headed to the zoo and the lab to come up with a cohesive physics story for how defecation works.
Gotcha, five times faster than the blink of an eye.
Candler Hobbs/Georgia Tech
How do a frog's tongue and saliva work together to be sticky enough to lift 1.4 times the animal's body weight? Painstaking lab work found their spit switches between two distinct phases to nab prey.
As temperatures rise, will species have enough habitat to move to suitable ground?
Animals and plants will need escape hatches to move to cooler climes as the planet warms, but few parts of the U.S. have the natural habitat available for these migrations.
S’inspirer du vivant pour créer de nouvelles technologies, voici toute l’ambition du biomimétisme. Exemple avec les poils d’animaux et le nettoyage. Ébouriffant !
Hair as helpers in the quest for cleanliness.
Cleanliness is next to godliness. Did you know hairiness is a part of the equation as well?
Before you ask, they probably haven’t seen Twilight.
Real life blood suckers live among us but they don't want you to know about it.
Trying to smell like coral, and not like lunch.
The animal kingdom is full of incredible examples of camouflage, with animals resembling objects found in their environment such as sticks or leaves, or displaying colour patterns that permit them to blend…
Instagram photos with human faces are 38% more likely to receive “likes” than photos without faces, a new study shows. Researchers…
Researchers in the US have completed the first statistical analysis of social networking site Pinterest. They looked at gender…
Cloud formation is not affected by organic particles attached to water droplets, researchers at the Georgia Institute of…
US presidents linked to pro-business political parties tend to be better at economic management, new research suggests. The…
Using a process called paleo-experimental evolution, a 500-million-year-old gene from bacteria has been resurrected and inserted…
The more we understand about earthquakes, the more we can do to reduce their impact.
The magnitude 9.0 Tōhoku-Oki earthquake of March 11 last year was the largest earthquake in Japan’s modern history. In fact, it was the fourth-largest earthquake anywhere in the world since 1900. The earthquake…