According to a team of botanists from Tel Aviv University who uncovered this odd phenomenon, the secret is in the way the plants receive information from light. Your light receptors are located on the ...

In the late Cretaceous, fruit was a brand new innovation. Flowering plants first evolved during this period and started taking over on land, replacing cone-bearing plants. But who was eating this ...

The Nikon Small World photography contest doesn’t celebrate weather, wildlife, or natural landscapes. Instead, it’s meant to honor images of the world at the smallest possible scales, offering unique ...

Daylight Saving Time is now over, which means you probably enjoyed an extra hour of sleep over the weekend. Unfortunately, even a welcome disruption of your sleep cycle may be bad for your heart, at ...

Viruses can cause cancer. It’s something that’s well-established now, but the discovery was initially dismissed by the scientific community. Now, a new review published in Genes & Cancer is telling ...

Much of what we understand about the universe comes from interpreting the light patterns that hit our telescopes—from the smallest twinkles of distant stars to giant clouds of dust and gas. That’s ...

The most abundant whale species in the waters off southwest Australia is a subspecies of the blue whale: the pygmy blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda). Yet, despite being more common than ...

In Wyoming, we find cowboys, bison, rodeos, elk, and natural hot springs. But ocean cephalopods? Belemnites had been found in this fossil formation before, since it used to be an inland sea during the ...

Halloween seems like an appropriate time to let you know that zombies are real. Or at least zombie bacteria are, according to a timely new study published in Angewandte Chemie. A team of biologists ...

Igor Pikovski recently decided to tackle one of the holy grails of physics: discovering the quantum soul of gravity. “It's the biggest mystery of physics,” says the Stevens Institute of Technology ...