The bedraggled bumblebee queen seemed lifeless. Yet she was somehow alive — still breathing after being underwater for roughly a week in the lab. Did she manage to hold her breath for all that time, ...

Ultraviolet cameras captured faint electrical flashes from leaves and branches as storm charges built up in the atmosphere.

Zen digesters” rarely fart. “Hydrogen hyperproducers” fart a lot. Scientists are investigating what is typical.

A sudden release of pressure allowed a copper-based compound to superconduct at the highest temperature yet for atmospheric ...

Alaska’s glacial lakes are growing as glaciers retreat out of basins. These lakes will change desolate glacial rivers into ...

Suspicious cells build up in mice that haven’t given birth, a new study finds. They could help explain a longstanding mystery ...

Baseball is the best sport in the world for numberphiles. There are so many stats collected that the analysis of them even has its own name: sabermetrics. Like in Moneyball, team managers, coaches and ...

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...

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

Scientists created half-Möbius molecules, similar to the Möbius strips common in math classes, but half as twisty. It’s a ...

MRI scans of over 600 Finnish adults found that nearly all had frayed, torn or otherwise abnormal rotator cuffs — yet most ...

A new study proposes that a crash between Titan and another moon spawned Hyperion and, much later, destabilized Saturn’s ...