This video ranks the seven living gar species based on size, appearance, geographic range, and unique evolutionary traits. Viewers learn how each species adapted to its environment while retaining ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Scientists at MIT discovered a method to create a kind of particle accelerator using a molecule of radium monofluoride. Once excited by lasers in a ...

Sulfur caves are among the most extreme habitats on Earth. They are completely dark and filled with hydrogen sulfide gas, which is toxic to most life-forms. Inside, species’ survival depends on ...

Galveston's Moody Gardens is celebrating the rare birth of one of the world's most endangered primates. On Aug. 18, 2025, a baby Pygmy slow loris was born inside the Rainforest Pyramid, weighing just ...

Graphite is a key structural component in some of the world's oldest nuclear reactors and many of the next-generation designs being built today. But it also condenses and swells in response to ...

I don't mean to be dramatic when I say coffee grinders are both the biggest mystery in coffee, and also coffee's biggest hive of technological invention. If you find yourself in the online rabbit ...

The males of four newfound tarantula species have extremely long genitalia so that they can keep their distance from aggressive females during mating, researchers say. When you purchase through links ...

I am Dr. Beverly Barnum, a senior application scientist at Bettersize Instruments. I earned my Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry from California State University and later completed a Ph.D. in ...

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An ancient, distant human cousin from southern Africa called Paranthropus robustus has for the first time revealed molecular clues to its evolutionary status. Sequences of a protein derived from a ...

If you’re wondering why squirrels seem to vastly outnumber raccoons – or why certain car brands dominate city streets – a team of University of Virginia researchers may be able to help. Some species ...