The 18.5-acre Gipson Play Plaza, set to officially open on June 6, is one of the first major additions to Dorothea Dix Park.

A small but mighty microbe that can safely extract the rare earth and other critical elements for building everything from ...

It's difficult to overstate just how surprisingly early to the party this water may have been. “This suggests that water, the ...

It’s so important, in fact, that the trait has evolved 27 times among ray-finned fishes, a huge group that makes up half of all vertebrate ... (Read about nature’s living fireworks—animals ...

Wearable sweat biosensors enable the non-invasive, real-time monitoring of hormones. Here, we highlight the development and commercialization of a wearable technology that can measure hormone ...

Hailstones have been said to bounce up and down through clouds as they grow. A new study found that many stones take much simpler paths.

All animals and plants are important to their environment, but are some more important than others? Every ecosystem consists ...

Ayurvedic medicine is based on the idea that the world is made up of five elements — aakash (space ... Still, their tenacious nature can sometimes lead to conflict. Those with a pitta-dominant ...

Working as a merchant in 16th century Antwerp, Joris Hoefnagel saw the world through the medium of trade. He encountered ...

But what makes this sequence so special and interesting? For starters, Fibonacci numbers can be found in the natural world all around us. Most flowers, for example, will have a number of petals ...